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Bill Holiday, a retired veteran social studies teacher of 48 years, believes in exposing students to primary sources in history and would introduce his students at Brattleboro Union High School to people who could tell them firsthand about their lived history. He notes that the United States Supreme Court recently weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Bill Holiday, a retired veteran social studies teacher of 48 years, believes in exposing students to primary sources in history and would introduce his students at Brattleboro Union High School to people — like Alan Carter — who could tell them firsthand about their lived history. Holiday is a...
DUMMERSTON-Standing on the banks of the West River and looking up at Black Mountain, it’s hard today to imagine the industrial landscape that once dominated this quiet corner of Dummerston. Where forest now covers the slopes, there were once derricks, donkey engines, boarding houses, slag piles, and teams of...
DUMMERSTON-For months, neighbors along Black Mountain Road have watched truck after truck haul logs from the hillside. What’s happening in our backyard is a carefully planned forestry project led by Steve Hardy — president and owner of Green Mountain Forestry — whose four decades in the woods inform every decision made on the mountain. Hardy has practiced forestry for close to 48 years and founded Green Mountain Forestry 35 years ago. He’s a licensed forester in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
There could be no predicting the consequences of a 13-year-old junior high school student hearing a public address announcement stating that President John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. I was captivated by the images on television from Friday afternoon, Nov. 22, 1963, through the president's burial on Nov. 25. The haunting cadence of the funeral dirge is still with me now, 60 years later. I began my classroom instruction of the Kennedy assassination during my...
The Brattleboro High School/Brattleboro Union High School Athletic Hall of Fame announces its creation and the induction of its class of 2021. All went through an official nominating process that culminated in their selection by the 10-member Hall of Fame Committee. According to the organization's website, “The purpose of the BHS/BUHS Athletic Hall of Fame is to recognize, honor, and provide an enduring memorial for those persons whose outstanding contributions have enriched the athletic programs and brought honor to the...
As a minister and a leader of the civil rights movement, Rev. James Bevel initiated, strategized, directed, and developed two of the major successes of the era: the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade and the 1965 Selma Voting Rights Campaign. In 1963, Birmingham's Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth had invited Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), to Birmingham, one of the South's most heavily segregated cities. SCLC's leaders accepted a challenge. “I assure...
I met Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth in 2004 at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, where he was a featured speaker in an interactive field study, “Alabama's role in the Modern Civil Rights Movement.” The Alabama Humanities Foundation invited K-12 educators from across the country to participate in this intensive institute, which featured lectures by scholars, interactions with leaders and foot soldiers of the civil rights movement, travel to key sites dedicated to the preservation of civil rights history in Birmingham,
