This gathering – featuring a performative talk with slides by scholar, writer, and performer Andrew Ingall, discussions with community leaders about LGBTQ+ aging and caregiving, Q&A, and reception/dance party – is part of Resilient Patterns, a state-wide festival presented by Vermont Humanities. The primary focus of Ingall’s lively presentation is on his distant cousins Warren Kronemeyer and Leon Ingall, who lived in Townshend, Vermont from 1980 to 2007. In his multi-platform project Warlé, Andy uses genealogical research, archival documents, photography, artifacts, oral history, movement, and creative nonfiction to “re-member” ancestors he never met. With insights from guest speakers, he will explore how Warren and Leon’s struggles and successes compare with two other notable couples in Vermont history: Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake of Weybridge, whose relationship as “help-meets” was considered a sacred marriage by their 19th century neighbors; and Thom Herman and Jeremy Youst, who from 1979 to 1984 owned and operated the Andrews Inn, a gay-owned hotel, bar, and disco in Bellows Falls. The project is supported in part by the Vermont Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.