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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 […]

Dr. Sergei Khrushchev, son of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, spoke via Skype this morning, with Bill Holiday’s Brattleboro Union High School class about the Cuban Missile Crisis, the GDR & the Berlin Wall, and offered his perspective on Russia & the Ukraine in the current political climate. (Listen to Full Audio of the Conversation)

Gabriella Coburn visited Bill Holiday’s Brattleboro Union High School history class today to discuss the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and her escape from Hungary to life in the United States.  (Listen to Full Audio of the Presentation)

Our Annual Meeting and Presentation will be held November 17, 2013 at 2pm, at the Brattleboro History Center, 196 Main Street, Brattleboro. It is open to the public and light refreshments will be served. “Growing Up in Brattleboro” Richard Michelman is a Brattleboro native and the last surviving co-author of Before Our Time. Michelman, raised in Brattleboro, taught social studies in the Brattleboro school system. His interest in history and antiques started as a teenager and became a life-long avocation, attending and working at auctions, performing appraisals and sharing his knowledge. Michelman’s father was a downtown merchant for many years, owning Michelman’s (a mens clothing store) on Main Street. He will be sharing his collection of rare stereopticon views of Brattleboro. Michelman is remembered by BHS board member Karen Davis: I remember Richard Michelman as one of the sons of the kindly gentleman who owned and operated Michelman’s Men’s Clothing Store on Main Street, Ralph […]

Visit the Brattleboro Historical Society in two locations for Gallery Walk  (we are #35) on Friday, October 4, 2014. We are staffing our Research Room located on the third floor (enter back door, handicapped accessible) of the Municipal Center at 230 Main Street. Here we store our 10,000+ photographs, 100s of files relating Brattleboro’s rich history, newspapers from the 19th and 20th century, paper collections, maps and so much more. Our History Center located in the Masonic Center at 196 Main Street will also be open where you can see ever changing artifact displays and purchase merchandise relating to the history of Brattleboro, including books, photos and more. Conveniently located just adjacent to the Baptist Church on Main Street. We hope to see you there!

Photographer Paul Wainwright will present at talk on New England’s colonial meetinghouses on Wednesday, September 25, at 7 PM at Brooks Memorial Library. Using photographs of the few surviving “mint condition” meetinghouses as illustrations Wainwright will tell  the story of the society that built and used them, and the lasting impact they have had on American culture. New England’s colonial meetinghouses embody an important yet little-known chapter in American history. Built mostly with tax money, they served as both places of worship and places for town meetings, and were the centers of life in colonial New England communities. Wainwright has always loved photography and history, but he was captured by physics in high school, eventually getting a PhD in it from Yale. He worked for many years at Bell Labs, with photography being a continuing avocation. Since 2001 he has been pursuing his love of photography and history full-time, and is especially drawn to photograph […]