Article Title
Vermont Revisited
Abstract
Vermont Revisited, William Jay Smith's sweet-bitter memoir of Pownal, Vermont, captures the political and social minutiae of a small, rural New England town in transition which continued to preoccupy itself in almost conspiratorial drama with its own parochial agendas, denying, even if not oblivious of, the changes at its doorstep. Yet Smith's observations of the machinations that were grist for the mill of the small-town intrigues are tinged with a sadness, with an awareness of an old order dying, of old values under siege, of a new order intruding itself — less private, more depriving if perhaps more equitable, and antithetical to Vermont's old culture and sense of self.
Recommended Citation
Smith, William Jay
(1987)
"Vermont Revisited,"
New England Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 3:
Iss.
2, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol3/iss2/5