BRATTLEBORO-It seems as if President Donald Trump is not popular in Windham County, either. On June 14, which was Flag Day, Brattleboro joined an estimated 2,100 protest marches across the nation and held its own "No Kings" march. Nearly 3,000 people marched from the Centre Congregational Church on Main Street to the common, where they listened to protest songs sung by the 50-voice strong Good Trouble Street Choir backed by the Peoples Resistance Marching Band, and to speeches about democracy...

The real deal

Helen Neswald

Wednesday, May 3, 2017 — Issue 406

In the middle of my village's quarter-mile-long Main Street stands an imitation Catholic church - imitation, in my eyes, because its street-facing colored windows are plastic, and, to me, a secular Jew with a passion for architecture, the word “Catholic” has always meant buildings of impressive stability reaching upward toward a heaven whose light shines through their tributary windows. Narrow-minded and irreverent, perhaps, but I have known many Catholics in the course of my 75 years, and most of them...

Honoring a literary pioneer

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 — Issue 531

On Thursday, Oct. 17, at 11 a.m., the West Brattleboro Association, in conjunction with the Brattleboro Words Project and Brattleboro Literary Festival, will unveil a state Historic Marker commemorating acclaimed local author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and four historic schools that stood near the current site of today's Academy School. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was repeatedly voted the most popular female author during the 19th century. Best known for her short stories, she published over 250 in her lifetime. Freeman...

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