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Brattleboro Historical Society Founder John Carnahan Final Interview

Brattleboro Historical Society founder, John Carnahan has passed. We interviewed John in August of 2022 at his home. We think the is the last recorded interview with John. It’s about 35 minutes long. Throughout the interview John’s intelligence, thoughtfulness, humility, and love of Brattleboro are evident. If you did not know John, we think you will like and respect him. Reggie Martell , also recently passed, filmed and produced the video . BHS interview August 22, 2022 https://youtu.be/YvE4e9wD-cQ?si=O2h1E4HHL7VouCUP

Competing Interests on the Connecticut River, a Talk with Joe Rivers

A talk by Joe River, Brattleboro Historical Society trustee. August 6, 2022. Latchis Theater, Brattleboro, Vermont covering over 350 years of Connecticut River history in 45 minutes. Some of the topics include commerce, recreation, food, government, transportation, energy, ecosystems, pollution, and culture. Most people have good intentions. And so they’re there often they’re doing things because they think it’s going to be good for themselves. And maybe for those they care about. What happens though, is that those interests bump into each other a cause conflict. And often there are unintended consequences as a result. And so, some of those things will come up during this presentation.

Oral History Project: Peter Gould

ORAL HISTORY PROJECT: THE VIETNAM WAR ERA with PETER GOULD In 1969 Peter Gould was, “tired of the Vietnam War, [and] angry at my county,” as he fled the disconsolate urban chaos in search of an alternative. He found it in at Packer Corners, in Guilford, Vermont and spent the next 9 years at the farm. In June of 2016 Peter sat with Brattleboro educator and historian Bill Holiday to recount those times in Peter’s personal narrative and the narrative of a remarkable place that lives on, nearly 50 years later

Here We Are with guest Stephanie Greene

Here We Are with guest Stephanie Greene Stephanie Greene is an author, free-lance writer, and VPR commentator who grew up here in Brattleboro. She is on the the organizing committee OF the Brattleboro Literary Festival and is hosting the “Vermont Voices” events. She is currently ON the leadership team in the “PEOPLE, PLACES & the HISTORY of WORDS in BRATTLEBORO” Project which kicks off Wednesday, Oct. 11th at Brooks Library with an exhibit, “Brattleboro’s Letterpress Years.”

Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling, read by Thomas Ragle

Dennis Waring – Estey Organs’ Impact on American Consumer Culture

Watch Dennis Waring’s full presentation on the impact of Estey Organ Company’s effect on American consumer culture.

Did you know first edition Harry Potter books were printed in Brattleboro?

Did you know first edition Harry Potter books were printed in Brattleboro? Here’s a video telling the story.

Video: Conmen, Scoundrels, Rogues: How to Research Colorful Characters, with Rolf Parker

Here We Are: Brattleboro’s Community Talk Show

Stephanie Greene talks with Wendy O’Connell on “Here We Are: Brattleboro’s Community Talk Show”, about the Letterpress Years exhibit, the WORDS project and more.

Hans U. Hielscher at First Baptist Church, Brattleboro, Vermont.

World renowned organist returns to Brattleboro to support the Estey Organ Museum. Hans will present a recital on the magnificent Estey pipe organ at First Baptist Church, Brattleboro, Vermont, Saturday, October 8, 2016.

Annette Spaulding presents petroglyph find at the Vermont History Museium

In the spring of 1909, the completion of a new hydro-electric dam in Vernon created at 28 mile long lake, from Vermont’s southern boarder with Massachusetts to Bellows Falls, as waters began to back up and subsume much of the river-adjacent countryside. On average, the water level rose 30 feet and eventually flooded more than 150 farms. Among the lands subsumed by permanent flood waters were a series of petroglyphs sites near the confluence of the West River and Connecticut River dating from a precolonial epoch, in the lands now known as Brattleboro, Vermont. In August of 2015, after a 30-year search, underwater explorer Annette Spaulding found one of the petroglyph sites, subsumed in 1909 and unseen by persons for over a century. In March of 2016, Annette presented her finding to a Vermont Historical Society brown bag lunch at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. BCTV and the Brattleboro Historical Society were on […]

Video – Brooks Memorial Library 1st Wednesday Series, from December 2015: The Buildings of Vermont

Middlebury College professor Glenn Andres examines the remarkable range, quality, humanity, and persistence of Vermont’s built landscape, in this talk that looks beyond Vermont’s pastoral stereotypes to examine the remarkable range, quality, humanity, and persistence of its built landscape. Glenn Andres has taught, primarily in the areas of architectural and urban history, at Middlebury since 1970. His research spans from the Italian Renaissance through 19th century America to postmodernism. He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Cornell University and a PhD in architectural history from Princeton University. His doctoral dissertation on the Villa Medici in Rome was pursued while a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Recorded at Brooks Memorial Library on December 2, 2015 as part of the Vermont Humanities Council sponsored First Wednesdays statewide lecture series.