Who was Hetty? We continue to uncover stories and tales about a woman named “World’s Greatest Miser” in the Guinness Book of World Records, “the witch of wall street” by her colleagues, and in 1916 at her death, the richest woman in the world.
Join the Bellows Falls Downtown Alliance this fall for the ‘Running of the Hetty’s’, dress in black, wear a hat, a veil and run or walk the route Hetty and her husband Edward Green might have taken with their family to the family house, which is now where TD Bank stands. The park adjacent to the bank lot is named Hetty Green Park. Learn more about this wise and spendthrift woman, her children Sylvia and Ned and why Bellows Falls loves to hate her.
Hetty separated from Edward years before his death, but converted to Episcopalian to be buried with her husband and his family. A simple obelisk reads Hetty Green, wife of Edward Green, and is located in the cemetery behind the Immanuel Episcopal Church