The Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast is available on all major platforms! A community-wide project, the Words Trail reveals layers of Brattleboro’s rich history on-site, with interpretive podcasts based on the work of community researchers and published historians.
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Introducing the Words Trail Podcast
Host Lissa Weinmann welcomes listeners to the Brattleboro Words Trial Podcast and describes how hundreds of community members share their talent to produce these delightful audio stories celebrating the rich and unique legacy of writing printing and publishing in Brattleboro – America’s most storied small town.
Jody Williams: From Brattleboro to the Nobel Peace Prize
Jody Williams shares what life was like growing up on the ‘shaggy side of the middle class’ in Brattleboro, Vermont and early experiences there that shaped her strong sense of social justice. She discusses the work that went into passing an international treaty to ban landmines and how it felt to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. She touches upon current work on the campaign to stop killer robots and the critical importance of civics education and social action. Narrator opens with a bit of history on Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, and the origins of the Peace Prize.