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The Joys of the Season

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BRATTLEBORO FIRE DEPARTMENT PRESS RELEASE
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The phrase, "outside the hydrant district," caught my attention.

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BRATTLEBORO MYSTERY HOUSE
PART TWO
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The person who made the original Facebook post got a good number of replies. Though the building looks like a house, most likely it was a water-storage place and pump house, holding a water supply for Brattleboro Retreat or maybe the Retreat farm. The building is said to have sunk some distance into the ground, which could explain its low-to-the-ground appearance.

Mystery evidently solved.

Life in Brattleboro Vermont | Near the Brattleboro Retreat tower, there is this building totally boarded and sealed shut | Facebook

Near the Brattleboro Retreat tower, there is this building totally boarded and sealed shut. I have looked and looked as to what is was and what is was used for (also why it is still standing) and I...

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HERE IS A DEVELOPMENT THAT NEVER WOULD HAVE OCCURRED TO ME
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Evidently this was first posted six days ago but I only saw it today.

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LIBBY HOWES
Acted in and participated in the creation of groundbreaking New York City experimental theater productions

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/theater/wooster-group-libby-howes-theater.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LFA.qlwH.9QzqY25wP6x7&smid=em-share

Libby (in Brattleboro, she really didn't need a last name) was a fixture around town. I used to see her here in the late 1980s and she was a resident of Brattleboro by 1990. From talking with a lot of people since she died in December 2025, it appears folks knew her by sight because she walked around town a lot or they didn't notice her at all because her frequent presence made her part of the community's ambience, with very little in between. A few local people knew of her acting career. Nearly everyone here didn't.

I have posted a good deal of information about Libby at the genealogy website, FamilySearch.org, and this article pulls many details together very nicely.

Libby was something like a Brattleboro institution and it is hard to imagine the town without her.

[This link likely has a limited life expectancy and it would be a good idea to follow it sooner rather than later.]

Libby Howes, a Promising Young Actress, Left New York in 1981 and Disappeared. What Happened?

Libby Howes was an imposing presence onstage with the Wooster Group. But after abruptly leaving New York in 1981 she became a theater world mystery. What happened?

The New York Times

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