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ResearchThe Brattleboro Historical Society Oral History Project presents Bill Holiday’s interview 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 at Packer Corners, in Guilford, Vermont and spent the next 9 years at the farm. In June of 2016 Peter sat...
The BHS Oral History Podcast: Bill Holiday’s Year 2000 Interview with the late Andy Natowich
This Week in Brattleboro History
Dick Mitchell was an active Trustee of the Brattleboro Historical Society. He was born in Brattleboro in 1917 and passed away in 1990. What follows are memories of his growing up in the 1920's...
This Week in Brattleboro History – The Class of 1952: BUHS’ First Graduating Class
This Week in Brattleboro History – Dede Stolte
Remembering Vietnam: Brattleboro’s Fallen Sons
The BHS Podcast Memorial Day Special
This Week in Brattleboro & Burlington History – Live at Champlain College!
This Week in Brattleboro History
Fats Waller slams it down with Attila Zoller and other jazz luminaries on his Estey organ, from Brattleboro! In 1927 famous jazz musician and composer Fats Waller recorded the first organ jazz records using a modified Estey Pipe Organ from Brattleboro. This is the...
This Week in Brattleboro History – What is School For?
It was 103 years ago this week that the largest headline in the Brattleboro Daily Reformer asked, “What Is A School For?” In 1913, the Vermont Legislature created a Commission to examine the state of public education in the Green Mountains. The Carnegie Foundation for...
This Week in Brattleboro History – WWI Parade
It was 97 years ago this week that Brattleboro celebrated the return of her World War I soldiers, sailors and nurses with a parade up and down Main Street. An estimated 8,000 spectators watched 50 local organizations join together to honor the 470 men and women who...
This Week in Brattleboro History – Indentured Servants
It was 150 years ago this week that Brattleboro’s Overseer of the Poor signed an Indentured Service contract with a farmer in Dover for the services of a ten year old boy named Robert Drake. That’s right! In 1866, one year after the Civil War ended, and 4 months after...
This Week in Brattleboro History – Daughters of the American Revolution
It was 103 years ago this week that the Vermont Phoenix reported that the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was locating and marking the graves of Revolutionary War soldiers in Brattleboro and nearby towns. You may not be aware that Brattleboro...
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...
This Week in Brattleboro History – H.P. Lovecraft
It was 86 years ago this week that the writer HP Lovecraft was home in Providence, Rhode Island creating his story, “The Whisperer in Darkness”. Lovecraft was a self-described writer of “weird tales” which often blended fantasy, horror and science fiction. “The...