iBrattleboro.com | DanAxtell | Activity https://www.ibrattleboro.com/members/DanAxtell/activity/ Activity feed for DanAxtell. Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:27:05 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=9.1.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 aa5a16668c3a9ffce369132212736701 DanAxtell commented on the post, Good Time To Hike Wantastiquet https://www.ibrattleboro.com/living/recreation-sports/2021/06/good-time-to-hike-wantastiquet/#comment-20934 Mon, 28 Jun 2021 01:36:15 +0000 Here are links for the full resolution panoramas I took from the lower Wantastiquet lookout on June 23, 2021. When you zoom all the way in on the downtown panorama, you can read “LATCHIS” on the […]

]]> 7565b7c2b4da64e4b674516e39cb1c05 DanAxtell wrote a new post, Good Time To Hike Wantastiquet https://www.ibrattleboro.com/?p=63238 Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:43:35 +0000 On Wantastiquet, the trail is dry and the mountain laurel is blooming. On June 23, 2021, there was no water on the carriage road trail up to the summit. Not even a puddle. Really, things are that dry. You can wear […]

]]> f1c4c6df02bd4d0c1ad881354d6176b8 DanAxtell commented on the post, 1912 Story Mentions Brattleboro's "Only Living Ex-Slave" - Mr. Jake Cartlidge https://www.ibrattleboro.com/culture/history/2020/06/1912-story-mentions-brattleboros-only-living-ex-slave-mr-jake-cartlidge/#comment-19927 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:15:06 +0000 The nascent Vermont African American Heritage Trail notably excludes Brattleboro on their map, https://www.vermonthumanities.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/African-American-Heritage-Trail-2017-brochure.pdf. Maybe […]

]]> ebeefafc9edae1ab9f0520131f5c3492 DanAxtell commented on the post, Have Pity On The Weeds https://www.ibrattleboro.com/living/home-garden/2020/05/have-pity-on-the-weeds/#comment-19776 Sun, 10 May 2020 00:40:30 +0000 The soundtrack here should be “Sweet Brother Weed” a modern shape-note-style song by Vermont’s own Don Jamison of the Social Band (on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxR2zM6cNBo).

First Verse:
Sweet […]

]]> cbd114d972c8e70a2d56204a0026fac6 DanAxtell wrote a new post, 3-mile Loop Trail on Wantastiquet Rediscovered https://www.ibrattleboro.com/?p=55338 Fri, 08 May 2020 12:58:19 +0000 There’s a beautiful, unknown 3-mile loop trail on Wantastiquet. I discovered it a few years ago. I’ve pushed fallen branches to the side, so now it’s sort of possible to follow it. I’ve posted a GPS track “kmz” f […]

]]> 5795bc74f459cd80b459c89c24f196b2 DanAxtell wrote a new post, Wild Blueberries on Wantastiquet in late July https://www.ibrattleboro.com/?p=49114 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 14:16:53 +0000 It’s a good year for wild blueberries on Wantastiquet. A week ago, I picked a cup of blueberries at the lower lookout. The photo is from July 30 with downtown Brattleboro in the background. There were plenty still […]

]]> 4d02a9aeec941ec6b82c1c66f6d20874 DanAxtell wrote a new post, 1958: A Brattleboro Family Devastated and a Bridge Built https://www.ibrattleboro.com/?p=39604 Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:58:33 +0000 The Wong family plot is easy to find in Brattleboro’s Locust Ridge Cemetery on Black Mountain Road next to I-91. It’s the only gravestone facing south, consistent with Feng Shui. Lily, Stephen, and Emerson die […]

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