Living Memorial Park, Vermont: Brattleboro's volunteer-run town ski hill

The Brattleboro Ski Patrol was formed in January 1938 and formally affiliated with the National Ski Patrol System in 1941, per Brattleboro Ski Hill's own history page. The current Doppelmayr T-bar lift was installed in 1957, the same year the Town of Brattleboro took over running the ski hill. The Town of Brattleboro ceased operating the ski hill in 1995. A private group of citizens reopened the hill in 1997 under the newly formed nonprofit Living Memorial Park Snow Sports, Inc.

Living Memorial Park itself was created after Brattleboro residents raised funds during the 1950s to purchase the Clark family farm, developed into a park in partnership with local service organizations, per the Town of Brattleboro's own Recreation & Parks History page. Brattleboro's Recreation & Parks Department, which today oversees Living Memorial Park, was established in the early 1920s.

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center is located in Brattleboro's historic Union Station at the foot of Main Street, and hosts the Sucka Punch Graffiti Jam, a three-day festival celebrating graffiti writers and artists, per the museum's own website. The Latchis Hotel building was constructed in 1938 in an Art Deco style the property calls "Greco Deco," designed by architect S. Wesley Haynes as a memorial to Demetrius P. Latchis, a Greek immigrant businessman, and is one of only two extant Art Deco buildings in Vermont, per Wikipedia's Latchis Memorial Building article. The Latchis Theatre screens commercial films alongside live events, Met Opera in HD broadcasts, and National Theater Live productions; its auditorium is part of the wider Latchis complex, which also houses the hotel, a pub, and dining space.

The Estey Organ Museum is dedicated to the history of the Estey Organ Company of Brattleboro, which manufactured reed organs, pump organs, melodeons, and pipe organs for nearly a century; it operates seasonally, open weekends 2-4pm May through October, per the museum's own website. Fort Dummer, established in 1724, sat where Brattleboro now stands; its original site was submerged in 1908 after construction of the Vernon Dam, per Vermont State Parks' own Fort Dummer State Park page. Fort Dummer State Park offers camping, hiking, swimming, and picnicking. Harris Hill Ski Jump, built in 1922, closed for renovation in 2005, reopened in 2009 after a $600,000 renovation, and received FIS international certification in 2011, per Wikipedia's Harris Hill Ski Jump article; the jump celebrated its centennial in 2022 with a commemorative sculpture installed on Main Street, according to the ski jump's own website. North Chair Brewing operates a taproom in Brattleboro producing beer under its Whetstone Beer brand, per the brewery's own website.