Jacob Estey and Estey Organ Company Achievements Featured on Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast
Brattleboro, Vermont; 24 September 2024: The September episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast tells the story of how Jacob Estey and the Estey Organ Company put Brattleboro on the map and helped shape American popular culture in the second half of the 19th Century. Jon Potter of Latchis Arts narrates the podcast with a variety of organ and pipe music featured throughout. The Podcast is available for free on all podcast platforms at: https://brattleboro-words-trail-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/jacob-estey-the-estey-organ-companys-reverberations
The Estey podcast informs the September 26-30 EsteyFest 24 in Brattleboro. This national reed organ conference attracts hundreds to Brattleboro, site of the longest-lived and largest reed organ company in the world. The Estey Organ Company and the Estey family who ran it produced more than half a million musical instruments that traveled the globe with their prominent ‘Made in Brattleboro, Vermont’ stamp.
