Madame Sherri moved to Chesterfield, NH in the late 1920's.  There are many stories about what happened at her property on Gulf Road.  You probably haven't heard this one from someone who shared the property with her from 1929 to 1940...

BHS e325-Antoinette Sherri and Charles LeMaire

Sue Mitchell will be retiring from Brattleboro Area Middle School this year.  She has worked more than forty years in local schools.  Sue was born and grew up in Brattleboro, attending St. Michael’s School until it closed, and then finishing her high school years at Brattleboro Union High School.  This is a bit of her story...

BHS e463-Sue Mitchell; Humor, Flexibility and Caring

WTSA has recently changed hands, Dan Taylor began working for the local radio station more than 50 years ago.  He recently retired...this is his story...

BHS e548-Dan Taylor and WTSA

Public School District Consolidation is a current issue.  The Vermont Legislature has debated school consolidation for more than 150 years.  Brattleboro's Vermont Governor Levi Fuller weighed in on the issue back in 1892...here's the story...

BHS e549-Levi Fuller and School Consolidation

The Clark family has donated many artifacts to the historical society.  Their family lineage traces back to the Mayflower...Allerton Avenue is named after one of their ancestors...here's the story

BHS e553-The Clarks:  Mayflower to Brattleboro

June, 1954 the Chamber of Commerce declared "Mel Ferrer Day".  The actor visited town and helped raise money for a children's local mental health clinic.  This is the story of how a Broadway actor had connections to Brattleboro...

BHS e557-Mel Ferrer Day, 1954

For more than 40 years Clara Antonetti was a major contributor to the local community.  This is her story...

BHS e558-Clara Antonetti, Local Radio and the Welcome Center

For nearly two decades Belinda Lashway was a Brattleboro PD dispatcher.  In this episode she shares stories of some of the intense moments with the job.

BHS e559-Belinda Lashway, the Dispatcher

Charles Eddy was a local bottler of carbonated beverages and "Temperance" beer who found himself in court during Vt. Prohibition.  By 1900 the company was the largest bottler in Vermont.  The business was located on Flat St.  With various owners, it continued to operate into the 1970's.


BHS e562-C.H. Eddy & Co., local beverage bottler

In 1936 George Aiken campaigned for Vermont Governor and also wrote a book entitled, " Pioneering with Fruits and Berries".  Ninety years ago he was elected to office and also operated one of the largest plant nurseries in New England.  This is the story...

BHS e565-George Aiken, Horticulturalist and Politician

Nellie and Patrick McCarthy married in St. Michael Roman Catholic Church in 1893.  They were a hard-working couple and well-respected by their peers.  Here's their story...

BHS e568-Nellie and Patrick McCarthy, a very capable couple

Hosea Beckley wrote a Vermont geography/topography/history book in the 1840's.  The book has wonderful descriptions of our region and gives examples of how geography impacted early settlement in Windham County.

BHS e570-Hosea Beckley and Geographic Impacts on Settlement 1840's

Long before European powers fixed their gaze on the Connecticut River Valley, the region that would become Brattleboro was part of a broader Abenaki homeland. The Connecticut River and its tributaries—especially the West River and Whetstone Brook—were more than waterways; they were transportation corridors, food sources, and cultural anchors...here's the story...


BHS e571-Geographic Influences on Early Brattleboro

The Centerville Covered Wooden Bridge was built in 1879.  Eight years later the Brattleboro Creamery Association constructed a plant nearby that converted local dairy cream into butter.  The business operated until 1911 and produced more than 200,000 pounds of butter a year.

BHS e572-How The Creamery Bridge Got Its Name

Susannah Willard Arms has been identified as providing "Patriotic Service" during the American Revolution by both the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.  This is her story...

BHS e573-Susannah Arms and the Revolution 1700's

Brattleboro may have had a few men at the first Vermont public reading of the Declaration of Independence.  This is the story...

BHS e574-Declaration of Independence and Vermont

Beginning in the 1780's, many "Vermont Sufferers" moved to Bainbridge, NY.  Many of these transplants were Revolutionary War veterans from Brattleboro, Guilford and Dummerston.  Here's their story...

BHS e575-Israel Smith and Vermont Sufferers

Arden Humphrey was a farmworker at the Brattleboro Retreat.  In 1889 he would disappear.  State-wide newspapers declared it was the biggest Green Mountain mystery in 25 years!  Here is the story...

BHS e576-Arden Humphrey Disappearance

August 4, 2026 there will be a day of celebration at the Creamery Bridge on Western Avenue as part of Vermont Covered Bridge Week.  The bridge was built in 1879 and is the last existing covered wooden bridge in Brattleboro.  We hope to see you there between 4 and 8 pm. 

BHS e577-Creamery Covered Bridge Day

When President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin in 1963, he requested that his personal security detail at
his residence be made up of soldiers from New England. Among those chosen to stand guard was Brattleboro’s Joe Jacques.
Joe later recalled standing at rigid attention on the balcony of Kennedy’s residence, a young
New England soldier far from home, posted at one of the symbolic front lines of the Cold War.  Here's the story...


BHS e578-Cold War, Berlin and Brattleboro

At 82 years old, Jack Dunham's story is rooted in Brattleboro, where he lived for 65 years.  Though he now bills himself under the straightforward banner, "Music By Jack" his musical identity was forged as a drummer and singer in local 1950's and 1960's Rock N Roll bands.  Here's the story...

BHS e579-Music With Jack Dunham

The story of 17 year old Winifred Hadley and her monument at Prospect Hill Cemetery

BHS e580-Winifred Hadley and Prospect Hill Cemetery

The Smith cousins began a local student newspaper in 1888.  High School news continued to be distributed in local papers into the 1960's.  Here's the story...

BHS e581-School Echoes (local student news) 1880's-1960's

In this recording the September 11th attack on the US is remembered by local residents...

BHS e582-Brattleboro Recalls 9-11

For approximately 10 years the local high school yearbook included a "Talking Page" 45 rpm record of highlights.  We share some of the similarities between the recordings from the 50's and 60's.

BHS e583-BUHS Audio Yearbooks 1958-1968

In 1859 Isaac Hines purchased approximately 30 acres of land.  This led to a housing development and water system for the East Village.  Here's the story...

BHS e584-Isaac Hines and Forest Square

Vermont began a sales tax in 1969.  The eastern border towns have struggled since then...

BHS e585-Sales Tax and Carter's Little Liver Pills

In 1972 a freight train bound for Brattleboro was struck by another train. Local men Harold Bullard and Harold Green were killed in the crash.  Here's the story...

BHS Podcast e153 - Train Wreck

In May of 1982 the Ku Klux Klan held a recruitment rally at the Common.  It was not the Klan's first visit to Brattleboro.  Here's the story...

BHS e216-The Day a Song Drove the KKK Out of Brattleboro

Arthur Goodenough was born in 1871 and his first published poem appeared when he was fourteen years old.  He spent his entire life on the family farm in West Brattleboro and, as an amateur poet, wrote thousands of stanzas.
In 1931 Goodenough argued against the adoption of sterilization as a means of promoting the eugenics movement in Vermont.  Here's the story...

BHS e246  Arthur Goodenough and Vt. Eugenics

Since 2015, the Brattleboro Historical Society has  recorded local history podcasts.  For about a decade, Brattleboro Area Middle School partnered with the Society to create these weekly stories of the past.

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