by Christopher Grotke | Mar 24, 2026 | History, Person
In 1950 Brattleboro’s first broadcasting station, WTSA, began. The station appeared at frequency 1,450 kilocycles on your radio dial, (AM 1450). It went on the air April 20th and was the eighth radio station established in Vermont. The 170-foot radio tower was built...
by Christopher Grotke | Mar 24, 2026 | History, Person
On August 18, 1920 the Tennessee state government voted in favor of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This caused the ratification of the amendment and meant that female citizens could now vote in U.S. and state elections. The leader of the local chapter of...
by Christopher Grotke | Mar 24, 2026 | History, Person
On January 12, 1983 an employee of Putney Road’s Book Press was found to be a fugitive wanted by the FBI for murder. 49 year old Teri Martin, an executive secretary, had been working at the Book Press for two months. She lived just north of Keene, NH and her Book...
by Christopher Grotke | Mar 24, 2026 | History, Person
In the summer of 2021 the stone staircase at the ruins of Madame Sherri’s “Castle” on the east side of Mount Wantastiquet partially collapsed. Antoinette Sherri, a Paris-born music hall singer, came to America in 1911. With her husband she opened a theatrical...
by Christopher Grotke | Mar 24, 2026 | History, Person
On October 8, 1846 Lewis Grout was ordained a Congregational minister. On the same day he married Lydia Bates in Springfield, Vermont and the newly married couple traveled to Boston that evening. Two days later they boarded a ship bound for South Africa. Lewis was 31...
by Christopher Grotke | Mar 24, 2026 | History, Person
The “Annals of Brattleboro” was printed by the local company, E. L. Hildreth and Company. The Vermont Phoenix said the publication was “by far, the most important history of Brattleboro ever published”. The “Annals of Brattleboro” is a two volume-1100 page-set of...
