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7 unusual facts about Bennington


Barbara Howes

Barbara Howes (May 1, 1914 New York City - February 24, 1996 Bennington, Vermont) was an American poet.

Bennington, Kansas

A paper written on the history of Bennington states that Bennington is an Indian name meaning "place of fine trees." The same article also states that co-city founder George R. Parker gave the town its name after Bennington, Vermont.

Bennington, New York

George Gilbert Hoskins, former US Congressman and Lt. Governor of New York

Bennington, Vermont

German reinforcements under the command of Lt. Col. Heinrich von Breymann looked set to reverse the outcome, but were prevented by the arrival of Seth Warner’s Green Mountain Boys, the Vermont militia founded by Ethan Allen.

Ernest O. Holland

1874, in Bennington, Switzerland County, Indiana, the son of Philip Calphy Holland and Ann Atlanta Chittenden Holland.

Grace La Rue

In 1909, she married Byron (The Millionaire Kid) Chandler in Bennington, Vermont.

Jovita Moore

She received her Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in literature, from Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, and earned a Master's Degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.


Abraham B. Gardner

Gardner then studied law and became an attorney and business owner in Bennington, Vermont, including serving as President of the Eagle Square Manufacturing Company and the Bennington and Rutland Railroad.

Archer Butler Hulbert

Archer Butler Hulbert, FRGS (26 Jan 1873 – 24 Dec 1933), historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history, son of Rev. Calvin Butler Hulbert and Mary Elizabeth Woodward, was born in Bennington, Vermont.

Ben Belitt

A bachelor, he became a good friend of the dancer (and fellow teacher at Bennington) Bill Bales, of his wife, the actress Jo Van Fleet, and of their son, Michael Bales, and regularly spent the important holidays of the year with this family at Bennington or in New York City.

Bennington Battle Day

The Battle of Bennington actually took place in New York, but is so named because the British were headed for a cache of weapons and munitions stored where the Bennington Battle Monument now stands in present-day Old Bennington, Vermont.

Bennington flag

Like many Revolution era flags, the Bennington features 13 stars and 13 stripes, symbolic of the 13 American colonies that were in a state of rebellion against Great Britain.

Bill Lippert

Lippert now serves as one of six openly gay members of the Vermont Legislature, alongside representatives Suzi Wizowaty (D–Burlington), Joanna E. Cole (D–Burlington), Brian Campion (D–Bennington), Matt Trieber (D–Bellows Falls) and Herb Russell (D–Rutland).

Credo in Us

It was composed to accompany a piece of contemporary dance choreographed by his partner and collaborator Merce Cunningham and choreographer Jean Erdman, who performed the piece at its premiere in Bennington College, Vermont on August 1, 1942.

Daniel Williams Harmon

Harmon was born in Bennington, Vermont on February 19, 1778, son of Daniel and Lucretia (Dewey) Harmon and died April 23, 1843, in Sault-au-Récollet (Montreal North), Lower Canada.

John Spargo, Two Bennington-born explorers and makers of modern Canada (1950)

Deerfield Valley Transit Association

It operates 16 routes, including service from Brattleboro to Bennington, Wilmington to Mount Snow, Wilmington to Readsboro, three routes for the elderly or disabled, and nine routes during the winter season around Mount Snow Resort.

Derrida Today

Authors published in Derrida Today have included: Karen Barad, Andrew Benjamin, Geoffrey Bennington, Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook, Grant Farred, Sean Gaston, Joanna Hodge, Christine Irizarry, Vicki Kirby, John Leavey, Niall Lucy, J. Hillis Miller, Christopher Norris, Herman Rapaport, Alison Ross, Henry Staten, H. Peter Steeves, among others.

Diane Thome

She has been composer-in-residence at the University of Sussex, Bennington Chamber Music Conference and Composers Forum of the East.

Edward Curtis Smith

In 1899 he officiated at the welcome home ceremony in Bennington for Admiral George Dewey, hero of the Spanish American War.

Fez Whatley

Ron Bennington was on-air the next day and in Fez's absence put on an impromptu radio memorial for Fez's father going to break playing Danny Boy.

Friedrich Baum

Allen, who had been outraged at the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga to Burgoyne at the beginning of July, complained to Stark that if his men did not get to fight at Bennington they would never answer another call to arms.

George Gilbert Hoskins

George Gilbert Hoskins (December 24, 1824 in Bennington, Wyoming County, New York – June 12, 1893 in Attica, Wyoming County, NY) was an American politician of the Republican Party.

Gregory Mertl

He has been full-time Visiting Artist of Composition at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University (2008-2010) and has been composer-in-residence at Yaddo, Château de La Napoule in France, the Fundación Valparaiso in Spain, the Helen Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, the Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the I-Park Artists Enclave in East Haddam, CT, and the Chamber Music Festival of the East at Bennington College in Vermont.

Henry Covered Bridge

Burt Henry Covered Bridge, also known as "Henry Covered Bridge", listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bennington County, Vermont

Hildegard Peplau

At Bennington and through field experiences at Chestnut Lodge, a private psychiatric facility, she studied psychological issues with Erich Fromm, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and Harry Stack Sullivan.

John F. Winslow

He was born on November 10, 1810 in Bennington, Vermont, and was a direct descendant of Kenelm Winslow, brother of Edward Winslow, a Mayflower colonist and a governor of Plymouth Colony.

Marianna Pineda

She studied with Carl Milles in the summer of 1942 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan), with Simon Moselsio from 1942 to 1943 at Bennington College (Bennington, Vermont), with Raymond Puccinelli from 1943 to 1945 at the University of California, Berkeley, with Oronzio Maldarelli from 1945 to 1946 at Columbia University (New York City) and with Ossip Zadkine in Paris from 1949 to 1950.

Mark Shepherd

Mark Shepard (born 1960), Vermont State Senator (R - Bennington County) and former U.S. House candidate

Northwest Omaha

Bennington, Irvington, sub-divisions along Blair High Road, sub-divisions around Standing Bear Lake, and the Briggs Neighborhood.

Paula Jean Welden

Due to the strangeness of these events, Vermont broadcaster and author Joseph A. Citro dubbed the wilderness area northeast of Bennington "the Bennington Triangle" – a reference to unexplained disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.

Welden walked down the campus driveway and hitched a ride from State Route 67A near the college entrance in North Bennington to a point on State Route 9 near the Furnace Bridge between downtown Bennington and Woodford Hollow.

Robin Weisman

Weisman is well known as the 'little lady' Mary Bennington in the film 3 Men and a Little Lady in 1990 with Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson.

Stark County, Illinois

He became widely known as the "Hero of Bennington" for his exemplary service at the Battle of Bennington in 1777.

T. Garry Buckley

His family moved to Bennington, Vermont in 1937, and Buckley was educated at The Albany Academy, Bennington's high school, the Cranwell Preparatory School and Brown University.

WBTN

WBTN-FM, a radio station (94.3 FM) licensed to Bennington, Vermont, United States

Westborough and Dry Doddington

It follows the drain southwards from here for two hundred metres to the River Witham which it follows to Long Bennington, being crossed twice by the Viking Way at Westborough and Long Bennington.


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