The Horace Greeley Foundation

95 on the Green

East Poultney, Vermont 05764

Horace Greeley, founder of the New York Tribune, suffragist, opponent of slavery, and man of letters, learned the newspaper trade in East Poultney, Vermont. He rose from humble beginnings to become one of the nation's most respected journalists. 

The Horace Greeley Symposium, held each year in Poultney, Vermont, is a celebration of Greeley's life. The Symposium explores the art of writing as presented by publishers and writers  in the fields of literature, poetry, philosophy, and history. 

Ms. Linda Nye Knowlton,  who resides at the Horace Greeley House in East Poultney (and serves as President of the Horace Greeley Foundation), and  Dr. William Bloom, M.D., a retired neuro-surgeon and author of several books, are co-founders of the Horace Greeley Foundation. Both Ms. Knowlton and Mr. Bloom are alums of Green Mountain College and each is a recipient of the College Distinguished Service Award.

The heart of the Greeley legend is centered in East Poultney where he lived and apprenticed in the newspaper trade. The small community of homes surrounds The Green at whose center is the East Poultney Baptist Church built in 1805. The Eagle Tavern where he boarded, the  house where he learned the printing trade, the one room school and the Melodeon Factory remain intact, as do almost all the structures that existed when Horace once purposefully began his life's work. 

In its seventh year of offering the writers' symposium, the non-profit Horace Greeley Foundation, funded through donations and proceeds from Symposium fees, is dedicated to promoting the writer's trade and the spirit of public oration that was central to Greeley's life.

What is perhaps equally central to our mission is preserving the sense of place and memory of life in a small New England village. Each year we meet in those places where Greeley lived, worked, debated and voraciously read the books and journals that fed his intellectual curiosity.