Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast

This episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail was written and narrated by Arlene Distler. Additional narration was Judy Ashkenaz, Steve Minkin and Woody Starkweather.  Producer and Executive Producer was Lissa Weinmann. Editing was Austin Rice with post production by Alec Pombriant. Mastering was by Guilford Sound. Musical selection for opening and closing music was Jeff Lederer's “Right Action” from his 2021 album 'Eightfold Path' and Mary LaRose for scatting in “Tinees Blues”. Special thanks to the crew at BCTV for great studio support. Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

This episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast was researched, written by Kevin O'Keefe and Christopher Grotke with research help from Rolf Parker. It is narrated by Kevin O'Keefe. Editing was by Alec Pombriant. Executive Producer and sound design was Lissa Weinmann. Merry-go-round music "Over the Waves Calliope" and "Texas Sunflower' are both by Martha Van Dorn, Boris Yakovleff and Eric Ramberg, from Smithsonian Folkways Records 1955 album 'Sounds of Carnival’. ‘‘Whispering’ from the 2010 Classic Carnival Circus Calyope, Volume 2 from the Carlisle Music Company was used at the end of the segment. Other circus sounds came from Tom Glazer’s 1948 recordings from Smithsonian Folkways ‘The Circus Comes to Town.’ Many thanks to the New England Center for Circus Arts first annual Vermont Circus Festival taking place in and around Brattleboro November 2 through 9, 2025. Thanks for listening, and we will see you next month on...the Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast. For more information on Jumbo and circus in Brattleboro, see IBrattleboro story by Christopher Grotke: https://www.ibrattleboro.com/culture/history/2014/06/pt-barnum-in-brattleboro-and-jumbo-in-the-whetstone/For more information on NECCA and the Vermont Circus Festival:  https://necenterforcircusarts.org/about/vermont-circus-festival/  Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

This episode was originally produced by Michael Hanish for the Brattleboro Words Trail app; A subsequent interview was conducted in September 2025 with Jana Zeller by Lissa Weinmann and incorporated with original pieces to create the podcast. Ines Zeller Bass, Eric Bass, Shoshana Bass and Jana Zeller all narrate. Original bed guitar music to Ines, Eric and Shoshanna segments was by Eric Bass. Other break guitar was by Alec Pombriant, who also edited the podcast. Executive Producer is Lissa Weinmann. For more information on Sandglass Theater please visit its website at:  https://www.sandglasstheater.org/ Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

This episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail podcast was researched and co-written by Angelika Pavlovna and Lissa Weinmann. Narration and editing was by Angelika Pavlovna. The Voice of Mary Cabot was Casey Pareles. Christopher Benfey provided additional commentary. Original music was composed by John Loggia. Lissa Weinmann did the sound design/editing and was executive producer.  Alec Pombriant did the final podcast mastering.All of Mary Cabot quotes were taken directly from Mary's original letters to her sister as archived in the indispensable Howard C. Rice Kipling Collection at the University of Vermont. Thanks to Johnny, Nolan, Van and Helena and the whole BCTV crew for studio help and general support for the Brattleboro Words Trail. The source of Mary Cabot's letters to her sister Grace and other documentation used in this podcast came from the Howard C. Rice Jr.'s Kipling Collection at the University of Vermont Special Collections: https://scfindingaids.uvm.edu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&op%5B%5D=&q%5B%5D=kipling+collection&limit=&field%5B%5D=&from_year%5B%5D=&to_year%5B%5D=&commit=SearchProfessor Christopher Benfey's 2019 book 'If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years' can be viewed at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545931/if-by-christopher-benfey/One can find an original copy of the Annals at Brooks Memorial Library, and it is also digitized online at the Internet Archive at:https://archive.org/details/annalsofbrattleb01cabo/page/n11/mode/2upFor a great read on Cabot's explorer/indigenous photographer brother William Brooks Cabot, see:https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2001/09/william-brooks-cabot-htmlFor information on renting/visiting Kipling's home Naulakha in Brattleboro:  https://landmarktrustusa.org/rudyard-kiplings-naulakha  Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

Research, Script and Narration: Dan Toomey. Voice of Frost and reading 'The Road Not Taken'  is William Edelglass. Editors and recordings: Lissa Weinmann, Donna Blackney. Mastering by Dave Snyder, Guilford Sound. Music used: ‘A Place Beyond Belief’ by Sander Kalmeijer (storyblocks.com), ‘Horses’ by Pictures of the Floating World’ (freemusicarchive.org), ‘Cove Instrumental’ by Chad Crouch (freemusicarchive.org). Photograph is Walter Hendricks with Robert Frost on Marlboro College campus, photographer unknown, part of Marlboro College archives. Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

This episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast was narrated by William Edelglass, a Professor of Philosophy and a co-founder of the Brattleboro Words Trail. Executive Producer Lissa Weinmann interviewed William at BCTV with engineering support from their staff. Alec Pombriant – that’s me – edited and designed the sound. The interstitial music heard in this episode is 6 Épigraphes Antiques by Claude Debussy as performed by Peter Serkin. Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

This episode was a labor of love from the Rice/Hooper family who wrote and produced most of it. The Nurse Marion piece was written, produced and narrated by Steven L. Hooper, who also narrated the intro to the podcast. It was edited by Donna Blackney. Research was by Steve and Jackie Hooper. The voice of Nurse Marion was by her great, great niece, Althaea Carroll.Music used:‘Endless’ by Dana Boule (freemusicarchive.org)‘The Bluff Trail Instrumental’ (freemusicarchive.org)‘Werdenfelser Trompeten Landler’ by Strassmeir Dachaur Bauernkkapelle (freemusicarchive.org)‘La Marseillaise’ by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Performed by United States Navy Band https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Marseillaise.ogg (public domain)‘Streetlife’ by Lobo Loco (freemusicarchive.org)The second segment on the Rice Family of Chesnut Hill was researched, written and narrated by Jackie Hooper.  Audio Producer & Editor was Donna Blackney. The Voice of Amy Jones Rice was: Shannon Ward  and the Voice of Howard C. Rice was Riley Goodemote. Executive producer, Lissa Weinmann. Podcast editing, Alec Pombriant. Original selections were mastered by Guilford Sound. Music used: ‘Old Strange’ by Black Twig Pickers and Steve Gunn (freemusicarchive.org)‘Wild Horse of Stony Point’ by Black Twig Pickers and Steve Gunn (freemusicarchive.org)‘Fisher’s Hornpipe’ (traditional by James A. Fishar) Performed by Adam Boyce and Harold Luce. Archive recording courtesy of Vermont Folk Life Center‘Not Drunk’ by The Joy Drops (freemusicarchive.org)‘Dill Pickles’ by Heftone Banjo Orchestra (freemusicarchive.org)‘Patriotic Songs of America’ by New York Military Band and the American Quartet (freemusicarchive.org)‘Parisian’ by Kevin MacLeod (freemusicarchive.org)Steve Hooper produced a History Channel documentary about his Aunt Marion's war time experience “An American Nurse at War” which can be viewed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mmy2kdYGWoSteve also mounted a July 2021 Brattleboro Words Trail exhibition "You Have No Idea What It's Like Over Here..." on same at 118 Elliot Gallery https://118elliot.com/event/july-2-opening-you-have-no-idea-what-its-like-over-here-photos-letters-from-brattleboro-ww1-nurse-marion-mccune-rice/ Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

This episode was written and narrated by Amer Latif, who also played the ney. Producer and editor was Lissa Weinmann. Guilford Sound mastered the Words Trail content and Alec Pombriant did post-podcast production. Dr. Amer Latif is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in comparative religion and Islamic studies. His research revolves around the translation of cultures. Having grown up in Pakistan and with an undergraduate degree in Physics, Dr. Latif thrives on studying and creating containers that are capacious enough to hold seeming contradictions such as science and religion. Dr. Latif lives in the Brattleboro area, having tought at Marlboro College, just next to Brattleboro. That college closed in 2020 but lives on as the Marlboro Institute at Emerson College in Boston where Dr. Latif teaches today. The Sama is ritual of Sufi whirling or whirling dervishes, a mystical practice within Sufism, a branch of Islam, that involves spinning and whirling while chanting and praying, a form of worship, or prayer through movement,  to connect with the divine and achieve a state of spiritual unity.We honor the special gifts all cultures bring to the world, and hope you enjoy how this segment sheds particular light on the rich artistic traditions around Islam and Sufism's reverence for nature, and humans place within nature.For a current online class on Rumi recommended by Dr. Latif:https://www.suficorner.org/events/masnaviFor more info on Threshold Publishing/Kabir and Camile Helminskywww.sufism.org    Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

This episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast was written and edited by Adam Silver of CX silver gallery in Brattleboro. Executive Producer was Lissa Weinmann. Adam also interviewed Nye Ffarrabas and selected the pieces that she reads in this podcast. Musical excerpts are used by permission from Annea Lockwood's 1998 composition ‘Immersion’ performed by Rebecca Celebolsky and Peter Scholes, members of Auckland Chamber Orchestra originally recorded for ANZ concert. This episode was timed to a new exhibition of Nye's work: Nye Ffarrabas: Truth IS A Verb, opening from March 22 to July 6, 2025 at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Here's some text from the site for that:  At 92, Nye Ffarrabas, formerly Bici Forbes Hendricks, occupies a significant place not only in the postmodern art world but also in our global cultural zeitgeist. During the early and mid-1960s, she (as Bici) was part of New York City’s Fluxus community, an experimental and creative laboratory that viewed life and art as inseparable and, in some respects, one and the same. This exhibition—Truth IS A Verb!—focuses on works published and distributed by The Black Thumb Press, which Ffarrabas founded in 1965, with contributions from her then husband Geoff Hendricks, also a Fluxus artist. Black Thumb’s goal was to expand visual and verbal stimuli, encourage exploration, and investigate new forms of “intermedia,” combining different media in unexpected ways. Truth IS A Verb! includes letters, postcards, and other text-based ephemera, such as a box of cards that provide instructions for different activities or how to achieve certain states of mind.... (read more at BMAC site above). Thanks also to CX Silver Gallery. Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

This episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast was narrated and executive produced by me, Lissa Weinmann. Editing for the overall podcast was by Alec Pombriant. Audio Producer for the Daisy Turner segment was the Vermont Folklife Center, with research & narration by Jane Beck. Desmond Peeples produced and narrated the Lucy Terry Prince segment. Author Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina read segments from her book "Mr & Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth Century Couple Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend“  and the reading of Lucy Terry Prince’s poem “Bars Fight” with comments and research was by Shanta Lee, who is also a member of the Brattleboro Words Trail Advisory Team.  The photo of Daisy Turner was taken by Jane Beck. A great video of the celebration placing the marker referenced in the podcast can be viewed at https://www.brattleborotv.org/brattleboro-words-project/abijah-and-lucy-terry-prince-dedication-state-historic-marker/A joint Vermont House and Senate resolution recognizing Lucy Terry Prince brought forth by then State Rep Sara Coffey in 2021 and referenced in the podcast is here: https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2022/Docs/ACTS/ACTR097/ACTR097%20As%20Adopted.pdf Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

Segments in this episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast were written and produced specifically for the Brattleboro Words Trail by Sally Seymour and Reg Martell. Lissa Weinmann, was executive producer. Seymour wrote, produced and edited the history of Harris Hill narrated by Peter Graves. Reg Martell produced and edited the Chris Lamb and Rich Holschuh segments. Peter Case narrated the podcast. Chris Lamb and Rich Holschuh wrote the segments they narrate. Alec Pombriant assembled and edited the podcast. Original segments were mastered by Guilford Sound. Musical credits for the Chris Lamb segment go to its producer, Reg Martell. Brattleboro Words Trail theme music used throughout is by Ty Gibbons. We’d like to thank the Harris Hill Ski Jump for its help in producing this podcast and to all the volunteers who work and the jumpers who fly to make this one of Brattleboro’s most unique events. See Harris Hill Ski Jump official website: https://harrishillskijump.com/ (Dates in 2025 are February 15 and 16)See the Brattleboro Words Project website: https://brattleborowords.org/See info on Peter Graves: https://skihall.com/hall-of-famers/peter-graves/?srsltid=AfmBOortp1LI4F2sqp5fKBD_YT1Z9KuX6FY-tOIAx4eU_AhC5s2Ok35SSee Rich Holschuh's Atowi project: https://www.atowi.org/ Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

This episode was produced and edited by Sally Seymour for the Brattleboro Words Trail and those segments were mastered at Guilford Sound. Angelika Pavlovna edited the Brattleboro Words Trail segments into this podcast.  Executive Producer and podcast host is Lissa Weinmann. Bodett also penned the forward in the Brattleboro Words Project book "Print Town: Brattleboro's Legacy of Words" available at Everyone's Books in Brattleboro.  See a short vid and more info on the book at: https://brattleborowords.org/print-town-brattleboros-legacy-of-words-the-book/LINKS:Tom Bodett official website:https://bodett.com/Hatch Space is the woodworking school and gallery Tom founded in downtown Brattleboro along with renovating/preserving a historic building which has a printshop and other creative maker spaces.https://www.hatchspace.org/'Inside Passage' Tom’s story on The Moth, performed March 16, 2012: https://themoth.org/stories/inside-passageTom has written seven books and sixteen current audio publications. Writing credits include book reviews for the New York Times and reviews and articles for The Los Angeles Times. His work has appeared in TV Guide, Reader’s Digest, Redbook, Harper’s Magazine’s, In a Word, and he was a regular columnist for Mr. Showbiz, a satirical entertainment magazine published by Starwave Corporation. His voice appears in Steven Spielberg’s animated cartoon, Animaniacs, and the feature length Animaniacs video, The Wishing Star, and the Pinky and the Brain series for Warner Brothers Animation. His voice has been featured on Saturday Night Live, National Geographic Explorer and several Ken Burns' documentaries.  Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

This episode was written, narrated and produced by Nora Rodes. Editing was by Dave Snyder, Daniel Murphy and Alec Pombriant. Mastering was by Guilford Sound. Musical selections were chosen by Rodes and  are listed below. Photo credit is Megan Littlehales. A historic marker for Margaret is at the Marlboro Historical Society. Haughton House – Make the Wildwood Ring CD (Front Hall Records, 1981) (0.59)(Front Hall, NY label, founded 1973,  published 21 CDs, including a # for Tony Barrand/John Roberts/Nowell Sing We Clear)  InstrumentalFrog Went A Courtin’ – Odis Bird (Max Hunter Collection) (1.04 0r .30)The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection - Missouri State UniversityMagnolia Tree – Fred Atwood (MM Collection, VFC)  Barbara Allen - Make the Wildwood Ring, Margaret MacArthur, Megan Littlehales, Dan & Gary MacArthurThe Half Hitch – On the Banks of Coldbrook CD (Tony Barrand and Keith Murphy)Braes of Yarrow – Ballads Thrice Twisted CD (©1999 MM) Margaret MacArthurKing John and the Bishop – Ballads Thrice Twisted, Margaret MacArthurLittle Red Hen – Winifred Landman,  Margaret MacArthur Collection, Vermont Folklife CenterSingle Again – May Nichols, Margaret MacArthur Collection, Vermont Folklife CenterThe Tailor and the Mouse – Barbara Linden, Margaret MacArthur Collection, Vermont Folklife CenterMarlboro Merchants – Vermont Ballads and Broadsides CD (Whetstone Records) (©1989 Margaret MacArthur) Stratton Mountain Tragedy – On the Mountains High CD (Living Folk Records, 1971) (appears another essentially self/close-connection “label”) (©2001 Margaret MacArthur)Central Vermont Railway Tragedy –On the Mountains High CD Margaret and familyMary Shaminski I love you – Make the Wildwood Ring, Margaret MacArthurFarmers Alphabet – Vermont Heritage Songs (©1994, 2006 Margaret MacArthur) Margaret  MacArthurMaple Sweet – Vermont Heritage Songs, Margaret and  Megan Littlehales, Dan MacArthurNewbury’s Bendell Bridge – Vermont Heritage Songs, Margaret and school childrenHills of Dover – The Old Songs CD (Philo, 1975) (Philo bought out by Rounder 1982) Margaret MacArthurRanadine – On the Mountains High CD Margaret  MacArthur and familyPeri Meri Dixi and Domini – On the Mountains High, Margaret MacArthur and familyPRIMARY LINKSThe Margaret MacArthur Collection at the Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermonthttps://vtfolklifearchive.org/collections/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=MacArthur%2C+Margaret%0D%0AMargaret MacArthur’s Performance at the Library of Congress - June 6, 2005Film recording of Margaret MacArthur performing ballads and songs from Vermont.Part of the Homegrown 2005 Concert Series sponsored by the American Folklife Center.https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687781/ Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

This episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast featured writer Pablo Medina who reads his essay ‘Home in Vermont’ written specifically for the Brattleboro Words Trail mobile app (https://brattleboro.stqry.app/) that guides listeners through stories of people past and present who embody the theme of 'words' throughout the Brattleboro area.  This episode was produced and hosted by me, Lissa Weinmann and was edited by Alec Pombriant. We thank Pablo Medina for his participation as well as his suggestion that we use short clips of his favorite Cuban composer Leo Brouwer performed by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. A ceramic marker in Williamsville representing Pablo will now be added to the beautiful Brattleboro Words Trail landscape murals created by local artist Cynthia Parker Houghton.  You can see the murals on display at 118 Elliot in Downtown Brattleboro, but they will move to the town's new Amtrak station in 2026.  You can also see a video by producer Donna Blackney about the making of the murals at:  https://www.brattleborotv.org/brattleboro-words-project/brattleboro-words-trail-cynthia-parker-houghton/. General information about maps, stories and the ongoing community creation of audio stories  can be found at the Brattleboro Words Project website at:  https://brattleborowords.org/ Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

This episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail podcast was written and produced by Sally Seymour and me, Lissa Weinmann.  Original edits were by Sally Seymour, and podcast editing and mastering was done by Alec Pombriant. Jon Potter of Latchis Arts did the main narration. Dennis Waring and Barbara George provided commentary. The Brattleboro Historical Society and Dennis Waring’s book: ‘Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs and Consumer Culture in Victorian America’ were indispensable resources. Local writers Joe Rivers, Fran Lynggaard Hansen and Kevin O'Connor work on Estey also informed this episode. Thanks also to Lee Ha of Brattleboro Historical Society for help locating Jacob Estey correspondence for use in this podcast. Musical selections were mostly taken from pieces Waring features in a CD that accompanies his book, and some music is from Fats Waller’s pipe organ pieces from Jazz History Online( https://jazzhistoryonline.com/fats-waller/).  Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

The segments on the two judges used in this episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast were produced and edited by Sally Seymour. Research, scripts and most narration is by Meg Mott. Some narration and commentary on the Judge Oakes segment was by Elizabeth Caitlin. The voice clip of Judge Oakes was from an October 23, 1979 James Madison Lecture at New York University and is used courtesy of the James L Oakes Collection at the Vermont Law School. The updating interview with Meg Mott was produced by Lissa Weinmann at BCTV studios in downtown Brattleboro. Segments on Oakes and Stone were mastered by Guilford Sound. Final podcast editing and mastering was by Alec Pombriant. Special thanks to Mara Williams for her help on the Judge Oakes segment. Thanks also to the sixth grade class at Chesterfield School who in 2021 pelted Mott with many questions about the Supreme Court and local hero Judge Stone. Archives of the Honorable James L. Oakes https://www.vermontlaw.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Oakes-guide-Final.pdfJudge Oakes on being an American citizen:  https://www.myretrospect.com/stories/a-borrowed-story-from-my-neighbor-a-judge/ Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

This episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast was written, narrated and produced Lissa Weinmann. Audio Editing was by Sally Seymour. The Voice of Dr. Wesselhoeft is Ned Childs. Voice of Abby Estey was Elery Loggia. Mastering was by Guilford Sound with final podcast editing by Alec Pombriant. Wesselhoeft quotes were taken from Wesselhoeft comments in various editions of his ‘Green Mountain Spring' newspaper. Abby Estey Fuller quotes were from her ‘Daughters of the American Revolution’ speech published in 1928. Info on Wesselhoeft’s early life was thanks to Starr Willard Cuttings’ “The History of Robert Wesselhoeft’ original manuscripts in Brooks Memorial Library rare documents division. This podcast was supported by a Digital Capacities Grant from the VT arts council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.Abby Estey's description of the various watercure paths is from an address to the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1912 which was published in 1928. Jerry Carbone created a database of Wesselhoeft clients over a three year span, see: https://dbnews.americanancestors.org/2019/01/29/new-database-brattleboro-vt-wesselhoeft-water-cure-1845-1848/     Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

The first half of this episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast on Eleanor Roosevelt, Carmelita Hinton and the Putney School, was produced, written and narrated by Anna Kusmer with commentary by Marnie Rosner, Putney School founder Carmelita Hinton's granddaughter. Archival tape of Eleanor Roosevelt's voice at that commencement speech was restored and mastered by Guilford Sound. The second half of this podcast on Wangari Maathai was produced and edited by Lisa Merton and Alan Dater. Clips of Wangari’s voice were taken from their documentary film: Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai.  Executive Producer of this episode was me Lissa Weinmann. Final mastering was by Guilford Sound. Final podcast editing and production was by Alec Pombriant. Many thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Humanities Council and the hundreds of volunteers who make the Brattleboro Words Trail a reality. Thanks to Christopher Grotke for making composite image of Roosevelt and Maathai for episode image.  Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

Today you can walk or ride your bike along several lengthy segments of the old West River Railroad thanks to the efforts of non profit Friends of the West River Trail. You can also pick up physical maps at their trailhead on the river near the Marina Restaurant in Brattleboro. That’s also where the West River and Connecticut River meet, just next to the Vermont Canoe Touring Center, where the bridge collapsed and JJ Green died. It’s also where the Amtrak line crosses on a new bridge today.  The West River Railroad Museum in Newfane and the Historical Society of Windham County nearby in Newfane are well worth a visit.This episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast was researched, written and narrated by Deborah Lee Luskin. It was produced and edited by Donna Blackney. Executive Producer was me, Lissa Weinmann. The voice of JJ Green is John Loggia. The voice reading the 1885 newspaper account of JJ Green’s death is Jon Mack. Mastering of the original Brattleboro Words Trail audio and all Brattleboro Words Trail audio was by Guilford Sound. Audio editing for the podcast was by Alec Pombriant. Credit for JJ Green image goes to Daniel Brooks and the Historical Society of Windham County. Thanks to Laura Wallingford at the Historical Society of Windham County for her guidance and support.Downloadable Trail Maps: Link to Friends of West River Trail lower section of the West River Trail map, Brattleboro and Dummerston: https://westrivertrail.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/west-river-trail-map_11x17-2018.pdfLink to Friends of West River Trail upper section of the West River Trail map, Townsend to Londonderry: https://westrivertrail.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/uppersectiontrailmap.pdfFor more on the West River, see Brattleboro Words Trail Elizabeth Florette Fischer story for a glimpse into the unique geology of the site, and the piece on the ancient Petroglyphs on the West River.   Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work. 

This episode of the Brattleboro Words Podcast was written, produced and narrated by Maria Margaronis. The voices on Part 1 ‘Total Loss Farm’’ are Maria, Verandah Porche and Richard Wizansky. The voices on Part 2 ‘The Bard of Guilford’ are Maria and Verandah Porche. The voices on Segment 3 ‘Night Walk’ are Maria and Peter Gould. Executive Producer was me, Lissa Weinmann. Mastering of segments was by Guilford Sound. Final podcast editing and mastering was Alec Pombriant.  Photograph is 1971 Packer Corners image by Asa Elliot. For more information about how to join this creative work, visit us at BrattleboroWords.org.  Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work.