18 min
Life and Death of West River Railroad's JJ Green Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast
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The old depot of the West River Railroad in Newfane Vermont was where Station Master JJ Green, a prominent citizen of the town who wore many hats, including telegraph operator and journalist, worked each day and kept a diary for the year 1885. The depot was lovingly restored in recent years by The Historical Society of Windham County into the West River Railroad museum, where the original copy of Green's diary and many other artifacts are preserved. The book, 'The Diary of JJ Green: A Daily Record of the Year 1885 by a Stationmaster on the West River Railroad', gives an intimate view of life at the time, reflections on the seasons and current events, and the woes of the West River Railroad.
The story is poignant, the diary ironic: JJ Green died on the train on his way to deliver a story to the Vermont Phoenix in Brattleboro in the infamous “Wreck at Three Bridges” the very next year (1886).
The second third of the podcast is an interview with writer and narrator Deborah Lee Luskin on a bit of the history of the West River Railroad, where it fit-in regionally and a sense of how it was used. A description of the museum is also discussed as well as the West River Trail's recreational possibilities.
The old depot of the West River Railroad in Newfane Vermont was where Station Master JJ Green, a prominent citizen of the town who wore many hats, including telegraph operator and journalist, worked each day and kept a diary for the year 1885. The depot was lovingly restored in recent years by The Historical Society of Windham County into the West River Railroad museum, where the original copy of Green's diary and many other artifacts are preserved. The book, 'The Diary of JJ Green: A Daily Record of the Year 1885 by a Stationmaster on the West River Railroad', gives an intimate view of life at the time, reflections on the seasons and current events, and the woes of the West River Railroad.
The story is poignant, the diary ironic: JJ Green died on the train on his way to deliver a story to the Vermont Phoenix in Brattleboro in the infamous “Wreck at Three Bridges” the very next year (1886).
The second third of the podcast is an interview with writer and narrator Deborah Lee Luskin on a bit of the history of the West River Railroad, where it fit-in regionally and a sense of how it was used. A description of the museum is also discussed as well as the West River Trail's recreational possibilities.
18 min