January 31, 7 p.m. Elemental Bookbinding & Survival Book Repair As part of the WORDS project, Marshall Brooks will present ELEMENTAL BOOKBINDING AND SURVIVAL BOOK REPAIR, a talk at the Brooks Memorial Library, Wednesday, January 31 at 7PM. Attendees will leave this illuminating presentation with a comprehensive resource list and a good idea of how to proceed in mending their books.
In-Service day fun! On Tuesday, January 23rd, from 10:30 am-noon, the “Peoples, Places and the History of Words in Brattleboro, Vermont” events continue with a hands-on printing workshop designed for children 6 and up, as well as the young at heart 🙂 Master Printer Bill Soucy will lead this fun exploration of the art of Printmaking!
In-Service day fun! On Tuesday, January 23rd, from 10:30 am-noon, the “Peoples, Places and the History of Words in Brattleboro, Vermont” events continue with a hands-on printing workshop designed for children 6 and up, as well as the young at heart Master Printer Bill Soucy will lead this fun exploration of the art of Printmaking!
November 29 at 7 PM, Brooks Memorial Library Rolf Parker gives a presentation on conmen who made their fortunes and furthered their careers by coming to Brattleboro and working their magic art. Rolf Parker, a free-lance writer and local historian, will tell their stories, and share tips and techniques for doing your own research and story-telling. Parker will also inform the audience how their research can become part of the Peoples, Places and the History of Words Project, which is funded by an NEH “Creating Humanities Communities” grant.
Brattleboro’s Letterpress Years was mounted as a month-long exhibit at Brooks Memorial Library, opening October 11, 2017. Letterpress printing was the primary way information was printed and distributed from the 1500s through the mid-20th century. Early settlers to New England brought their European letterpresses with them, finding fertile ground in Brattleboro to set up printing operations that blanketed the region with newspapers and other periodicals including one of the nation’s first female-run papers.
Gordon Haywood is speaking at the History Center, Friday evening 12/2, to discuss his new book about the Latches family and building. 6:30PM At the BHS History Center on Main St.
The Brattleboro Historical Society celebrates the many ages and stages of downtown with a slide show at its annual meeting on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 2 p.m. at its History Center on 196 Main St. Four years ago, newspapers statewide reported a seemingly insurmountable fire at the Brooks House. This fall, Vermont Life trumpets the building’s resurrection with a “Miracle on Main Street” cover story. The Historical Society program will illustrate how that Main Street change is just one of many over the past years, decades, and centuries. Since its founding in 1982, the Historical Society has worked to shelter and share locally significant facts and artifacts so that present and future generations can learn from the past. The all-volunteer group maintains a History Center at downtown’s Masonic building (open Thursday and Friday, from 2 to 4 p.m., and Saturday from noon to 3 p.m.), a Municipal Center research/resource room (open Thursday from 2 to […]
Vermont Public Television and the Brattleboro Historical Society will present a screening of the VT-PBS film American Denial at the Brattleboro Historical Society’s History Center (next to the Baptist Church Homeless Shelter) on Main Street in Brattleboro, Vermont. 11 March 2015 6:00 PM The program will include parts of the film and a panel of local activists to respond and discuss the film with the audience. Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth in Birmingham, Alabama (photo by Bill Holiday) Panelists include: Kelly Thomson (the film’s Producer – tentatively scheduled) Dottie R. Morris – Chief Officer for Diversity and Multiculturalism at Keene State College Guy Wood – member of United to End Racism and the NAACP Mikaela Simms – Diversity Coordinator at Brattleboro Union HS View Details
In celebration of Women’s History Month The Theatrical, Eccentric, Flamboyant Madame Sherri A talk by Eric Stanway Tues., March 17 7 p.m. Brattleboro Historical Society History Center at the Masonic Temple 196 Main St., Brattleboro Stanway is author of “Madame Sherri: The Special Edition,” an expanded biography of the diva of the 20’s who scandalized the locals for years before succumbing to poverty and dying in a Brattleboro boarding house, leaving her castle in the woods of West Chesterfield, N.H., to crumble to ruins. Stanway is a writer, artist and musician who has authored more than 15 books of New England history, including Mysteries of Monadnock, The Old Rindge House, Haunted Hillsborough County, The Victorian, and Mad Ghosts and Englishmen.
Beginning Sunday, January 25, 2 p.m. Historic Deerfield will present a free winter lecture series,”Textiles and Fashion in Early America” this winter, with lectures on Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. in January, February, and March at the Deerfield Community Center, 16 Memorial Street, in Old Deerfield. The lecture series is part of the celebration, “Fashioning a Legacy: The 50th Anniversary of the Helen Geier Flynt Textile Gallery.” The first lecture, entitled “Exquisite Selections: Masterpieces from the Historic Deerfield Collection” will be presented on Sunday, January 25. David E. Lazaro, Associate Curator of Textiles for Historic Deerfield, will give an in-depth look at the Helen Geier Flynt Textile Collection, which today numbers some 8,000 objects including clothing, accessories, and domestic textiles, assembled by Historic Deerfield founders Helen Geier Flynt and Henry N. Flynt. The lecture series continues with “Boarding in Boston: Education, Embroidery and Refinement in the Late Colonial Period,” on Sunday, February 22, presented by […]
Free admission: Open 4-8 for Gallery Walk. Our toy display continues with a truck and a train specially crafted from wood and handmade dolls as well as an amazing Estey employee-built furnished dollhouse. Glimpse at Rudyard Kipling through Mary Cabot’s personal journal entries (“Annals of Brattleboro, 1681-1895” author); peruse her amazing photo albums. Play a locally made Estey Field Organ. Read VT Phoenix weeklies from 1895. Learn about Crosbys, Esteys, and Moodys. Inspect the Ft. Dummer replica; Old signs, maps, prescriptions, gowns bottles and more.