Downtown Brattleboro is the core historic area with 22 sites, from the home of Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams and Dr. Wesselhoeft’s ‘Water-cure’ where writers revived, to Frederick Douglass’ first speech on the assassination of Lincoln, Kipling’s favorite watering hole, the offices of early suffragette and newspaper editor Clarina Howard Nichols, mystery writer Archer Mayor, ancient Persian poet Rumi, townspeople shouting down the KKK on the Common.