Lucy Terry Prince – Luce Bijah and justice (1724-1821)
This week in Brattleboro history we are going to tell you about Lucy Terry Prince, or Luce Bijah, as she called herself. She lived from 1724 to 1821. In a book called The Music of Black Americans it says Lucy Terry Prince was a significant contributor in the efforts...
Jessie Tarbox Beals photojournalist
Photojournalism is the effort to communicate news through the use of photographs. Photojournalism first began in the United States during the Civil War. Matthew Brady worked for Harpers Weekly magazine and photographed soldiers and battlefields for the publication. In...
Jennie Powers (1864-1936)
Jennie Powers spent almost forty years of her life as a righteous humanitarian. At a time when politics, personal ambitions, and private interests are occupying so much of our public conversation it is important to remember a person whose life was spent compelling...
Helen Dorr and the Carnegie Hero Medal (1915-1922)
In 1915 a little seven year old girl named Helen Dorr was recovering from a traumatic few months. In mid-November her father, Arthur Dorr, died from complications resulting from severe diabetes. He was thirty two years old and operated a machine that made stationary...
Harriet Howard and St. Patrick’s Day (1910)
In 1910 the luck of the Irish visited Brattleboro’s Harriet Howard. Twenty two years earlier she had moved to town with her husband. He was a dairy farmer and she was a seamstress. According to a local newspaper article, Harriet surprisingly received a letter from a...
George Washington, Ona Judge and Susannah Bradshaw (slavery 1840’s)
George Washington was born in 1732. He was the first President of the United States, leader of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and presided over the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. He certainly was a great influence on the founding and...
Florence Estey and the DAR Forest (1930’s)
On August 24, 1934 the Vermont Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) dedicated an Addison County land preserve to the memory of Brattleboro’s Florence Gray Estey. Mrs. Estey had died the previous year and the DAR chose her birthday for the ceremony. The DAR...
Eveylyn Harris (1897-1922)
Evelyn Harris was born in 1897. Her father was the treasurer of the Brattleboro Savings Bank. Her Brother, Fred Harris, was a year and a half older and went on to become a Brattleboro legend. He graduated from Dartmouth College, became President of the Brattleboro...
Evelyn Harris and the ski jump (1920’s)
This week in Brattleboro History we’re going to focus on one of Brattleboro’s many independent women...you may have heard of past trailblazers like Clarina Nichols, Mary Wilkins, Dr. Grace Burnett, Marion McCune Rice and Mary Cabot. Each, in her own way, demonstrated...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Putney School and Integration (1956)
In June, 1956 Eleanor Roosevelt traveled from Hyde Park, New York to Putney, Vermont in order to give the commencement address for the Putney School. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote in her daily newspaper column that the road to Putney “goes through the mountainous...