Brattleboro Main Street autumn
— — the brick row the river bends behind.
Not only on a wall.
“Main Street in Brattleboro, the first town a traveller meets crossing into Vermont from Massachusetts, slow-curving down to the Connecticut River. Brick storefronts from the 1870s on both sides, the old Brooks House on its corner, the Latchis marquee still lit. October turns the maples behind the rooftops, the river runs low and dark, and the sidewalks fill on Gallery Walk Friday. The town has held its own scale, around 12,000 people, three good bookstores, the Saturday farmers' market on the Common, and a co-op older than most of the customers.
Brattleboro Main Street autumn, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Brattleboro sits on the west bank of the Connecticut River at the Massachusetts line, the southernmost gateway into Vermont on Interstate 91. The town was chartered in 1753 and grew through the nineteenth century around the Estey Organ Company, once the largest reed organ maker in the world. The Main Street historic district, listed on the National Register, runs about half a mile of three- and four-storey brick commercial blocks dating from the 1870s and 1880s. Population is around 12,000, anchoring Windham County's economy and arts scene.
Autumn is Brattleboro's signature month. Sugar maples line the side streets and the hills above Main Street turn through the first three weeks of October, peaking around Columbus Day weekend in most years. Gallery Walk, the town's monthly art evening, runs the first Friday of every month and is busiest in October when the Vermont Theatre Company and the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center open new shows. The Brattleboro Farmers' Market, on the Common Saturday mornings May through October, draws growers from the whole West River valley.
Exit 1 or 2 off Interstate 91 puts you on Main Street within five minutes. Parking is metered along the street and in two municipal garages off Elliot and Flat. The Latchis Theatre and Hotel, an Art Deco landmark from 1938, anchors the south end. The Brattleboro Museum and Art Center fills the old Union Station above the river. Three good bookstores, including Mystery on Main Street and Everyone's Books, sit on the same three-block run, along with the Brattleboro Food Co-op, founded in 1975.