Rudyard Kipling’s Naulakha: Kipling Road, Dummerston, VT “There are only two places in the world where I want to live—Bombay and Brattleboro. And I can’t live at either.” — Rudyard Kipling On a hillside in north Brattleboro, around the bend...
FORT DUMMER A Land Acknowledgement Like every place in the United States, Brattleboro was built on stolen land, and the European settlers who came here during the colonial period did everything they could to drive out the Indigenous people who lived here. Those people...
MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN A Brattleboro Words Trail Site Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: West Brattleboro Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, beloved 19th century American author and Brattleboro local, began her 50-year literary career in Brattleboro. She published over 250 short...
Gipsy Grounds In Vermont, sociologists now recognize that the term “gipsy” was often applied to the indigenous Abenaki peoples, and their kin, some of whom adopted an itinerant peddler version of their annual subsistence cycles. In the nineteenth century, a...
WILLIAM CZAR BRADLEY A Brattleboro Words Trail Site William Czar Bradley: Westminster On the main thoroughfare through Westminster, Vermont, is a two-room time capsule. Likened to King Tut’s tomb, the humble white building is former law office of William Czar...
