This Week in Brattleboro History – Annette Spaulding & West River Petroglyph
In the spring of 1909, the completion of a new hydro-electric dam in Vernon created at 28 mile long lake, from Vermont's southern boarder with Massachusetts to Bellows Falls, as waters began to back up and subsume much of the river-adjacent countryside. On average,...
This Week in Brattleboro History – That Time Irene Flooded Flat Street
Five years ago, this week, a freak-show hurricane cum tropical storm, called Irene, dropped unprecedented amounts of rain on the state of Vermont. Brattleboro's many waterways swelled beyond their banks, including the Whetstone Brook, which crept, uninvited, on to...
This Week in Brattleboro History – The Farmers Market
Ten years ago this week the Brattleboro Farmers Market announced it would purchase the old Creamery property in order to expand the Market. Have you ever wondered about the land where the Market is located? Here's a bit of it's history...
This Week in Brattleboro History – 1977
This Week in Brattleboro History – Origins of the American Legion Post 5 Band
This Week in Brattleboro History – I91
This Week in Brattleboro History by Joe Rivers
This Week in Brattleboro History by Joe Rivers
The Brattleboro Historical Society Oral History Project presents Bill Holiday’s interview with Peter Gould
In 1969 Peter Gould was, "tired of the Vietnam War, [and] angry at my county," as he fled the disconsolate urban chaos in search of an alternative. He found it at Packer Corners, in Guilford, Vermont and spent the next 9 years at the farm. In June of 2016 Peter sat...