by Christopher Grotke | Mar 24, 2026 | History, Person
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...
by Christopher Grotke | Mar 24, 2026 | History, Person
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...
by Christopher Grotke | Mar 24, 2026 | History, Person
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...
by Christopher Grotke | Mar 24, 2026 | History, Person
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...
by Christopher Grotke | Mar 24, 2026 | History, Person
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...
