News: Media Coverage
‘There’s A Bigger Story’: Recently Rediscovered Petroglyphs Bring Indigenous Narrative To Surface
At the Retreat meadowsWritten in the landThis year brings the first official observation of Indigenous People’s Day in Vermont. It's also a time to reflect on what this part of the world was like before any Europeans set foot here, and on a submerged river bank in...
Toward a deeper meaning: The Brattleboro Words Project connects a people
BrattleboroToward a deeper meaningOver the past two and a half years, the project has worked with local scholars, producers, artists, journalists, and classrooms to celebrate local figures such as H.P. Lovecraft and Daisy Turner, and places such as Round Mountain and...
A Weekend of Events Celebrate “Something About Mary”
Across Brattleboro Mary at the Lit Fest The Governor of Vermont has proclaimed Oct. 17, 2019 to be “Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Day,” starting an entire weekend of events celebrating local history and words as part of the Brattleboro Literary Festival, a principal partner...
Harris Hill, Brattleboro Words Trail adds audio dimension to ski jump (February 15, 2019) BRATTLEBORO — This weekend, Harris Hill Ski Jump attendees can add an audio dimension to their experience by stopping by the Brattleboro Words Project's tent to listen in situ to...
VPR: Brattleboro Words Trail and Lovecraft
Stephanie Greene on Vermont Public Radio: Lovecraft in Guilford VPR contributor Stephanie Greene talks about the Brattleboro Words Trail project, and the roundtable on H.P. Lovecraft and place-based learning.
Video: Royal Tyler Roundtable Discussion
Roundtable Discussion: Royal TylerRoyall Tyler, the most important area author of the Federalist era, will be the subject of this year’s Brattleboro Words Project exhibit at this year’s Brattleboro Literary Festival, and will be the focus of the Project’s monthly...
Preserving History in Brattleboro
In Downtown Brattleboro Preserving History (September 28, 2018) Unique, rare, important and humorous historical treasures and archival collections reside within Windham County’s numerous historical societies, public libraries and museums. The Brattleboro Words...
Here We Are with guest Stephanie Greene
Here We Are with guest Stephanie GreeneStephanie 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...
Green Mountain Mornings: Rudyard Kipling at The Scott Farm
Check this out!: Rudyard Kipling at The Scott Farm, July 12. July 11, 2018: Okay, so the flesh-and-blood author is not appearing at Scott Farm. That would be impressive. The Brattleboro Words Project has the next best thing. Author Chuck Fish hosts a round table...
Words Project roundtable looks at impact of Estey Organ Co. on consumer culture
From THE BRATTLEBORO COMMONS BRATTLEBORO—The Brattleboro Words Project’s next monthly Roundtable Discussion will examine the history of Jacob Estey and how the famous Estey Organ Company helped shape American consumer culture and promote Brattleboro...
MILES: Placemaking Goes Mobile in Downtown Brattleboro
In Downtown BrattleboroPlacemaking Goes MobileAt the crack of dawn on a Friday morning, a trailer rolls down the street and maneuvers into a parking spot in the middle of Brattleboro’s Main Street. The sides of the unassuming trailer, proclaimed: “Lucy Speaks” and...
‘Words Project’ promotes history of Windham County
VTDigger‘Words Project’ promotes history of Windham CountyDid you know that the first United States edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was printed in Brattleboro? Or that the author of the first known poem by an African-American lived in...
Coalition focuses on words in Brattleboro
Lissa Weinmann, Sandy Rouse, Arlene Distler, Joe Rivers and William Edelglass (from left to right) discussed how the Words Project will work with the community to produce walking, biking and driving audio tours on a website to bring the cultural history of...
Words Project debuts unique mobile museum with ‘Lucy Speaks’
Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2017 2:39 pm By Lissa Weinmann, Special to the Reformer BRATTLEBORO — "People, Places and the History of Words in Brattleboro, Vermont" will debut its unique Mobile Interactive Literary Exhibition Space traveling museum...
Brattleboro to speak out in $150K grant for ’Peoples, Places and History of Words
Posted on Sep 26, 2017 Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has awarded Peoples, Places and History of Words in Brattleboro a $150,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) matching grant. This was one...
Consortium Wins NEH Grant for Local Literary History
Marlboro College joins three other local institutions in celebrating a new $150,000, multi-year, “Creating Humanities Communities” matching grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant is focused on sharing the Brattleboro area’s...
Exploring literacy, education, and culture through the words of our past
COURTESY OF MEMORIAL HALL MUSEUM, DEERFIELD, MASS, A portrait of Lucy Terry Prince by J. Minks. VOICES / VIEWPOINT Exploring literacy, education, and culture through the words of our past A new project shines a light on Brattleboro's literary history,...
Brattleboro peoples, places and words: Local consortium wins Humanities grant
Posted Friday, August 4, 2017 6:15 pm Brattleboro Reformer BRATTLEBORO — The National Endowment for the Humanities recently chose Brattleboro as the site for a new $150,000 multi-year "Creating Humanities Communities" matching grant to illuminate and share...