Judy Woodruff:
On a recent Tuesday evening in the Chapel of Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont, the Freedom and Unity Chorus, a nod to the state’s motto, is rehearsing for its upcoming concert at a nearby home hospice care.
The chorus is led by Maria Rinaldi, who works at Saint Michael’s but lives 20 minutes away in the small town of Jericho. To build the chorus, she went online, recruiting nearly every member through Vermont’s most popular social media network, Front Porch Forum.
Maria Rinaldi, Vermont Freedom and Unity Chorus: I would ask people in my chorus who lived in different towns like Burlington to advertise on their Front Porch Forum or Essex or Colchester or whatnot, and so that’s really how we started to build a larger chorus.
