SAUL BELLOW’S GRAVE A Brattleboro Words Trail Site Saul Bellow: Shir Heharim Cemetery (Morningside), Brattleboro For the last twenty-six years of his life, internationally acclaimed writer Saul Bellow (1915—2005) lived part-time in southern Vermont, enjoying the...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A Brattleboro Words Trail Site Frederick Douglass: Downtown Brattleboro Before and during the Civil War, former slave and black orator Frederick Douglass traveled the speakers’ circuit for the anti-slavery movement. By January 1866, the nation faced...
JUDGE JAMES L. OAKES A Brattleboro Words Trail Site Judge James L. Oakes: The Brattleboro Post Office & U.S. District Court Up until September 29, 2017, Brattleboro’s stately U.S. Post Office was also a U.S. District Court, home to amenities including a courtroom,...
PACKER CORNERS A Brattleboro Words Trail Site Packer Corners:Guilford, VT The Brattleboro area owes its reputation as a haven for alternative thinking and living in large part to the communes that thrived here through the 1960s and 70s such as Tree Frog Farm, Montague...
ANDREW KOPKIND & THE KOPKIND COLONY A Brattleboro Words Trail Site Andrew Kopkind & The Kopkind Colony:Guilford, VT America’s oldest weekly magazine, The Nation—where Andrew Kopkind wrote and published from 1980 until his death in 1994—called this Guilford...
