Below please find the names of those who have contributed and many who continue to contribute to the Brattleboro Words Project and all its offshoots. We are grateful to all of you for seeing and sharing the stories all around us. Contact us at BrattleboroWords@gmail.com if you worked on something but don’t see your name listed – we apologize if we’ve missed anyone!
Responsible for overall grant administration and planning for creation of Brattleboro Words Trail and Print Town book, murals, workshops, exhibits, monthly roundtable discussions and other events up to January 2021 when the new Project Advisory Team took over at the Vermont Folklife Center.
Lissa Weinmann, Project Director
William Edelglass, PhD, Lead Scholar
Rolf Parker-Houghton, Lead Local Historian
Sandy Rouse, Brattleboro Literary Festival
Mary Ide
Stephanie Greene
Rich Holschuh
Jessica Dolan, PhD
Desmond Peeples, Assistant Director (half of 2018 - 2019)
Jen Austin, Executive & Creative Director
Reg Martell, Brattleboro Historical Society
Joe Rivers, Brattleboro Historical Society
Starr LaTronica, Brooks Memorial Library
Arlene Distler
Shanta Lee
Jerry Carbone
Curtiss Reed Jr. (2017)
Sarah Kovach, Assistant Director (half of 2018)
Lissa Weinmann, Executive Producer
Joe Rivers (BAMS Student Work)
Donna Blackney (voice on intro)
Dave Snyder, Guilford Sound
Reg Martell
Sally Seymour
John Loggia
Ty Gibbons (Words Trail theme music)
Wendy Wallis
Leah Susan Goodman McGrath
Drew Lopenzina, PhD
William Forchion
Randy Holhut
Olga Peters
Kate Casa
Andy Davis
Jane Beck
Verandah Porche
Maria Margaronis
Marni Rosner
Buzz Schmidt
Ines Zeller Bass
Shoshonna Bass
Jody Williams
Angelina Pavlova
Jesse Haas
Orion Barber
J. Parker Huber
Jacqueline Hooper
Althaea Carroll
Mike Kelly (logo design)
Michael Hanish
Paul Van Winkle
John Grayson, PhD
Joyce Marcel
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, PhD
Amer Latif, PhD
Shannon Ward
Peter Galbraith
Beena Kamlani
Lisa Merton
Don McLean
David Hiler
Chris Lamb
Deborah Lee Luskin
Elissa Pine
Dennis Waring
Tim Weed
Ned Childs
Mary and Gordon Hayward
John Shaw
Archer Mayor
Jen Kramer
Ross Thurber
Ande Singh
Stephanie Greene
Graham Greene
Jenny Altschuler
Meg Mott, PhD
Riley Goodemote
Zachary Leader, PhD
Larry Simons
Alan Dater
Jesse Lepkoff
Jenny Holan
James Galbraith
Martin Langeveld
Molly Melloan
Barbara George
John Warren
Elery Loggia
Christopher Benfey, PhD
Curtiss Reed, Jr.
Stefan Gillam
Nye Ffarrabas
Charles Fish, PhD
Leonard Oppenheim
Lynn Green
Castle Freeman
Trevor LeClaire
Adrienne LaPierre
Colleen Chatterton
Fletcher Procter
Isaac Greene
John Irving
Robert Weir, PhD
John Scagliotti
Jeff Potter
Richard Wyzanski
Anna Kusmer
Jeff Morse
Eric Bass
Mazie Starratt
Tamara Stenn
James Koch
Jack Pombriant
Chuck Collins
Bonnie Kane
William Edelglass
Kristina Meima
Greg Jolly
Jon Mack
Steve Hooper
John Hooper
Dan DeWalt
Peter Gould, PhD
Alvino Fantini
Mary Wesley
Desmond Peeples
Sandy Rouse
Chief Roger “Longtoe” Sheehan
Kevin O’Keefe
Adam Silver
Amy Tudor
Jackson Gillam
Nancy Olson
Tom Bodett
Daniel Toomey, PhD
Kathaleen “Kit” Whallon
Lauren Paulet (Summer 2020)
Mazie Starratt (Summer/Fall 2021)
Brattleboro Area Middle School
Guilford School
Dover School
Green Street School
Brattleboro Union High School
Hinsdale High School, NH
Chesterfield School, NH
Michael Fleming, Editor
Stephanie Greene, Art Editor
Arlene Distler
Rolf Parker Houghton
Andy Burrows
Jen Austin, Committee Coordinator
Jim Brisson, Designer
Mary Ide
Jeff Potter ( 2019)
+ 32 writers listed in the book
The National Endowment for the Humanities
The Thompson Trust
Vermont Humanities Council
118 Elliot
Dunham-Mason Fund
Marlboro Town Committee
Brent Kendrick, PhD
Mara Williams
Everyone’s Books
Ana Saavedra, Edward Jones
Brattleboro Sunrise Rotary
The Windham Foundation
Crosby-Gannett Fund
New Hampshire Charitable Trust
Dave Snyder, Sara Coffey & Guilford Sound
New England Grassroots Fund
Friend of Brooks Memorial Library
Prentiss Smith
Phil Steckler
Vermont Historical Society
Joe Little, Brattleboro Savings and Loan
Mary Ide
Jerry Carbone
C&S Printing
Vermont Arts Council
Vermont Humanities Council
Andy Kolovos, Vermont Folklife Center
John Hooper
Alexander Shriver
Mary Ide
John Loggia
Marlboro College to January 2021
Rob Williams
Hillary Twining
Vermont Folklife Center January 2021 - Present
Susan Jones
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy
U.S. Representative Becca Balint
Andy Kolovos, Vermont Folklife Center
Prudence Baird
Sarah Kovach
Kate Ratcliff, PhD
Sara Coffey and David Snyder
Peter Elwell
Mara Williams
Robin MacArthur
Desmond Peeples
Clare Morgana Gillis, PhD