It was 101 years ago this month that Island Park weathered its worst ice flood!
BHS trustee, Joe Rivers, and his band of young historians at the Brattleboro Area Middle School examine the fraught relationship between Island Park and the Connecticut River.
Island of adventure
These podcasts are great, by the way. The stories are interesting bits of our history, told well by a smart group of young people.
I think Island Park is one of the long-lost things we had going here that would be fun if it were still around. (It’d be nice to have a creamery, too).
For a while, S.M. Waite (the guy who defrauded the bank) had thousands pf chickens living on the island.