Words Trail a Literary Journey Through Region
From the Brattleboro Reformer, article by Chris Mays & Gina Mangiaratti
Published Dec. 23, 2020
The Brattleboro Words Trail, a community project more than three years in the making, launched this month with an online app through which users can now access audio segments tied to more than 60 “tour stops” that form a trail. The app, accessible by going to brattleborowordstrail.org, launched in beta format for the community Dec. 15, and will have a nationwide launch in February…
Brattleboro resident Rich Holschuh, a proponent of initiatives aimed at recognizing Abenaki history, became involved very early on. Instead of focusing on Brattleboro as a center for printing and writing, he sought to go beyond — before Brattleboro was established, about 260 years ago.
Holschuh worked on audio segments on Harris Hill’s indigenous past and the Connecticut River, among other contributions.
“I suggested that there was a need to look at all of the people who were here before this became Brattleboro because that period of time is significant,” he said. “We’re talking thousands of years.”