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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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