This episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail podcast was researched and co-written by Angelika Pavlovna and Lissa Weinmann. Narration and editing was by Angelika Pavlovna. The Voice of Mary Cabot was Casey Pareles. Christopher Benfey provided additional commentary. Original music was composed by John Loggia. Lissa Weinmann did the sound design/editing and was executive producer. Alec Pombriant did the final podcast mastering.
All of Mary Cabot quotes were taken directly from Mary's original letters to her sister as archived in the indispensable Howard C. Rice Kipling Collection at the University of Vermont. Thanks to Johnny, Nolan, Van and Helena and the whole BCTV crew for studio help and general support for the Brattleboro Words Trail.
The source of Mary Cabot's letters to her sister Grace and other documentation used in this podcast came from the Howard C. Rice Jr.'s Kipling Collection at the University of Vermont Special Collections: https://scfindingaids.uvm.edu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&op%5B%5D=&q%5B%5D=kipling+collection&limit=&field%5B%5D=&from_year%5B%5D=&to_year%5B%5D=&commit=Search
Professor Christopher Benfey's 2019 book 'If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years' can be viewed at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545931/if-by-christopher-benfey/
One can find an original copy of the Annals at Brooks Memorial Library, and it is also digitized online at the Internet Archive at:https://archive.org/details/annalsofbrattleb01cabo/page/n11/mode/2up
For a great read on Cabot's explorer/indigenous photographer brother William Brooks Cabot, see:https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2001/09/william-brooks-cabot-html
For information on renting/visiting Kipling's home Naulakha in Brattleboro: https://landmarktrustusa.org/rudyard-kiplings-naulakha
Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work.
