BRATTLEBORO FOOD COOP PROPERTY (from Facebook)
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The attached black and white photograph shows much of the old Super Duper Plaza: - the current location of the Brattleboro Food Coop and parking lot.

The Super Duper Plaza never looked quite this bleak ... or shabby.  The supermarket, itself, had a highly unusual feature.  The floor had warped badly and there was a hump of good size that one needed to push a shopping cart up over.  It was even more fun pushing a cart down the other side of the hump.  I am glad I never ran over anybody with a heavy cart.  In those days, downtown supermarkets included the Super Duper, the Grand Union, and the A&P.  To the right of the photo was the old Idlenot Restaurant which made ice cream sundaes that couldn't be beat.  Further to the right, beyond our field of view, is one of the spots where Brattleboro's recycling program got started.  There was a place where one could deposit one's recyclables.  Curbside pickup came much later.

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#aandp #brattleboro #brattleborofoodcoop #brattleborohistoricalsociety #idlenotdairy #idlenotrestaurant #recycling #superduper #superduperplaza #vermont

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KENNETH N. TONEY
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Kenneth N. Toney obituary, Brattleboro, VT

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/kenneth-toney-obituary?id=54854476

While I never had the good fortune to know Kenneth Toney, I can say that a person who has been around Brattleboro for a long time ought to recognize his face in the obituary's illustration. He was all over town. His sister, Theresa Toney, who I did know, walked at a slow pace. Nonetheless, she covered a lot of ground. She was a character who many people will remember.

When I first moved to Brattleboro, Toney's Market, where Gouger's Market and Deli now resides, was a going concern. It was much more than just a neighborhood convenience store. The Toney family was a big part of old Brattleboro.

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The attached elderly photograph, which was originally posted by the Brattleboro Historical Society, shows Toney's Market in a state of transition that may have been before my time here. I arrived in 1970. Decades later, the man in this photo lived next door to me.

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#brattleboro #brattleborohistoricalsociety #brattleborohistory #gougersmarket #kennethntoney #kennethtoney #kentoney #theresatoney #toneyfamily #toneysmarket

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Travel2Next

20 Things To Do In Brattleboro

By Steve Burden -
21 December 2023 Updated on Dec 21st, 2023

https://travel2next.com/things-to-do-in-brattleboro-vt/

Steve Burden

Steve Burden is an avid traveller and experienced writer. As a former pro wrestler, Steve used to travel frequently for work throughout the USA and Europe. Having spent the last decade travelling all over the world in search of new sights and experiences, he has turned his love for travel into a new career helping others decide on the best places to visit, as well as what to see when they get there.

This piece gives credit to attractions that I do not recall ever seeing in any similar treatment of the Brattleboro area. I shall make some special note of the Estey Organ Museum, as I have resided in the Jacob Estey homestead since 1985.

When I came across this piece, running a Google Advanced Search, the hitlist headline read, "20 Things To Do in Brattleboro VA." Rest assured that this piece is actually about Brattleboro, Vermont. One little error in the article, itself, might amuse you. Check out the illustration by the block about the Creamery Covered Bridge. (The caption, in very fine print on this screen anyway, clears up the confusion.) Don't want to make too much of it, though: - this article has a lot going for it.

The Madame Sherri Forrest is one of the sites covered. Cap'n Bullfrog (Tim Sherry) of Cap'n Bullfrog's record store had terrific interest in Madame Sherri. Tip of the hat to Ms. Sherri and to the Cap'n.

A quick note about the haunted Jacob Estey homestead. I thought it was between the Estey family and me, personally, as to who lived in this building longest. It turns out I was almost certainly wrong. A nurse named Eva O. Bell moved in here, from the Bell farm in Whitingham or Jacksonville (sources differ), before World War 1, and operated this place as a private hospital. Her daughter, Corena Wentworth, later operated the building as a boarding house and stopping off place for tourists. If she remained here until her 1967 death, as seems likely, then the Bell/Wentworth family lived here longest. [I have since learned that the tenant who preceded me here in 1985 was Eva Bell's granddaughter.] A lot of locals would still remember her son, Carroll Wentworth, who taught English at Brattleboro Union High School for many years. I did not have his acquaintance but I do remember seeing him around town. Sorry for the digression but this interests me to no end.

Hurray for the town we live in and love!

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CHELSEA HOUSE
West Brattleboro, Vermont

The big red barn in its heyday - Chelsea House was at the forefront of folk music scene

November 4, 2023 | Brattleboro Reformer (VT)
Page: B07 | Section: News
766 Words

Credited to the Brattleboro Historical Society.

The Chelsea House was a music venue, mostly folk, that operated in West Brattleboro, Vermont, from 1974 to 1981. It drew heavily from more populous areas to the south. The second petroleum crisis and new competition in Northampton, Massachusetts, did much to sink Chelsea House finances. Bill Gehman told me the recording studio was the only part of the operation that was making money.

Margaret MacArthur initially thought a Brattleboro folk coffeehouse would not work. Soon, though, she started making valuable suggestions about ways to make this project succeed. She was the featured act on opening night.

One of the "local" opening night musicians, referenced in the Reformer article but not named, was and still is John Roberts of the folk duo, John Roberts and Tony Barrand. Of John, Tony once said, "John is not a true basso profundo but he's very smart."

The Brattleboro Folk Festival started in the Chelsea House. In later years, it was moved to the West Village Meeting House and then outdoors. The outdoors festival featured the most amazing custom-made speakers one could ever hope to see, made up of countless small speakers. As unorthodox and odd looking as this concoction was, the sound was remarkably good.

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Chelsea House Founders

William Howard Gehman (1939-2007)

Carol Margaret Levin (1941-2020)

Tony Ashe was also very important to the Chelsea House.

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Brattleboro Reformer articles, behind a paywall, are available to subscribers as well as to people who purchase the newspaper. There may or may not be a set number of free articles online. I am posting this publication information here for the benefit of anyone who can and who wants to hunt up the article.

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#billgehman #brattleboro #brattleborofolkfestival #brattleborohistoricalsociety #brattleborohistory #brattleboromusic #carollevin #chelseahouse #johnrobertsandtonybarrand #margaretmacarthur #nemsbk #newenglandmusic #tonyashe #tonybarrand #vermontmusic #williamhgehman

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