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To prep for a forthcoming chat with bicycle fabricator Frank Wadelton, I looked him up by his alias, “Frank the Welder,” on the internet.
I found - along with the expected nuts and bolts - an unexpected trove of blog posts.
John Meyer and I met in late 2005 when I was brought on as executive director of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce. John was a member of the Chamber board and though he had no direct hand in my hiring, he was from the first one of my...
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who dream big and go for it, and those who don't. And when the big dream is so full of love and compassion and a desire to give, we - all of us - are all the better for...
I've had a fascination with fife and drum music and ceremony for as long as I can remember. So when I was put in touch with Patrick Cooperman and Patsy Cooperman Ellis - president and vice-president, respectively, of the Cooperman Company, which manufactures fifes and a variety of drums - I was reminded immediately of a July Saturday in 2008. At the request of the state Department of Whatever, the three chambers of commerce along Route 9 - Bennington, Mount...
Robert Frost wrote in 1920: “Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.” In 2011, we learned that one doesn't have to wait until hell freezes over, thank you. Water itself - in its most liquid form - proved hellishly devastating to us. That April, a one-two punch knocked the life out of the iconic Brooks House, the largest building in downtown Brattleboro. An electrical fire and the thousands of gallons of water needed to put...
I thought I'd mastered our community's center. The shops. Eateries. Banks. The quite-outstanding food co-op. The iconoclastic Latchis complex. The bookending cultural monuments: Brooks Memorial Library up north and the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center down south. And, yes, Brooks House - the belle of the ball - anchoring once again a town with a history to be proud of. Who knew that in the old Paramount Building, across the street from where I worked for so many years, would...
Call me awestruck, but if there's ever been a more alluring business name than Cultural Intrigue around our fair town, I don't know what it could be. When those two words debuted locally about 23 years ago - on a storefront sign along with Beadniks - I'll wager that not too many downtown passers-by knew what they signified. My hunch is they suspected that there was something magical going on in the basement below the bead shop - something, well,
Packing in as much as I could during 2013 (my final year at the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce), I attended my first Vermont Travel Industry Conference - an upbeat, buzzy affair for any- and everyone concerned with travel and tourism. There, I ran into Luke Stafford, who'd opened an Internet marketing agency in Brattleboro a few years before. Having heard that his company, Mondo Mediaworks, had won an annually given conference award, I congratulated my homeboy and went on...
