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Anna Mary Robertson, born in 1860, was a folk artist who late in life came to be known as Grandma Moses. She attended school in this one-room school house which was moved to the Bennington Museum in Vermont. She became a painter late in life and kept painting pictures until just before her death in 1961. This schoolhouse museum contains the largest public collection of her paintings, as well as some of her personal belongings and photographs.

Rudyard Kipling was British, but he and his family moved to Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1892 to be near his wife's brother. The Kiplings built the mansion you see in the picture, and they named it Naulakha, which is a Hindu word that loosely translates as "fabulous jewel." Kipling wrote every morning, stopping at one o'clock in the afternoon. While living here he wrote The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, and Captains Courageous. He also began Just So Stories in this house. Incidentally, his horses were named Nip and Tuck. While living here, his daughter Josephine contracted tuberculosis and died. His grief over her death and his homesickness for England led to the Kiplings' leaving this home in 1896 and returning to England.

Calvin Coolidge was born in a small house that was attached to a general store across the road from this home in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. His parents moved to the larger house when he was four years old.

Vice President Coolidge was vacationing here when they the news came on August 3, 1923, that President Harding had died in San Francisco. (See the earlier report on Harding from Marion, Ohio.) Coolidge's father, a notary public, administered the oath of office to his son in the living room of this house by the light of a kerosene lamp at 2:47 a.m. When asked by a visitor some time later how he knew he could administer the presidential oath to his own son, the father replied, "I didn't know that I couldn't."

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