Ode to the Vermont wave

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https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/brave-little-state/2024-04-04/ode-to-the-vermont-wave

(21:21 min. audio and transcript at link)

Ode to the Vermont wave

By Nina Keck, Burgess Brown, Sabine Poux
Published April 4, 2024 at 5:39 PM EDT

LISTEN • 21:21



Nina Keck / Vermont Pubic
Question-asker Mica Tucker, of South Strafford, waves to a driver in a passing car. She wants to know: "What's up with the Vermont wave?"

Do you lift one finger off the steering wheel or two? When exactly do you do it — and what does it mean? Brave Little State sets out to write the unwritten rules of the road.

Brave Little State is Vermont Public’s listener-driven journalism show. In each episode, we answer a question about Vermont that’s been asked — and voted on — by you, our audience. Today, a question from Mica Tucker, of South Strafford:

“What’s up with the Vermont wave?”

Reporter Nina Keck gets schooled in some Vermont car manners. And she finds out what these gestures — often ephemeral, sometimes legendary — tell us about our communities.

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