Portrays life on a small family farm in Vermont by describing a single day in the hard-working but prideful existence of its owners

The Strength of the Hills: A Portrait of a Family Farm

Graff, Nancy Price

Children's Books

Little,Brown & Co

Captures the way of life of the Joyces, a fishing family on Swans Island off the coast of Maine, as they spend their lives harvesting the bounty of the sea

The Call of the Running Tide: A Portrait of an Island Family

Profiles a family of immigrants, the Preks, from Cambodia, struggling to make a better life for themselves as they embrace American culture while still treasuring much of their Cambodian heritage.

Where the River Runs: A Portrait of a Refugee Family

Biographies & Memoirs

In this fluidly written, thought-provoking novel set in 1980, 13-year-old Riley is unhappy about moving with his mother to the small town in Vermont where she grew up. His misery increases when Sam, an old high school friend of his mom’s, begins spending a lot of time with them. Riley is resentful of Sam, especially when he finds out that Sam is a pacifist who refused to fight in the Vietnam War. Things begin to look up for Riley after his mother gives him a pair of binoculars that belonged to his great-great-great-grand-father, a soldier in the Civil War. He develops an avid interest in the war and Vermont’s role in it, befriends a troubled girl in class, and grudgingly begins to form a relationship with Sam, though he still can’t accept what Sam did. But then events unfold in ways Riley could never have imagined, and he is forced to reexamine his ideas about courage, heroism, and the morality of war.

A Long Way Home

Price Graff, Nancy

Literature & Fiction

Clarion Books

Gus never imagined himself a parent at thirteen. But in the war-fraught summer of 1942, while living on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, he adopts a clutch of orphaned duck eggs. Gus can relate to the foundlings, as he is apart from, and yearns for, his own family. One day Gus finds a young stranger standing over the incubating eggs. Gus doesn’t know what to make of her, with her tattered clothing and strange accent, but soon the girl is helping to care for the newly hatched ducklings, and she and Gus become fast friends. Not everyone shares Gus’s high opinion of Louise, whose poverty-stricken French-Canadian family is shunned by the townspeople. His attempt to help his friend and her family has some embarrassing consequences and he must make retribution if he is to keep Louise’s friendship. Nancy Price Graff’s fluid narrative and exceptional eye for detail follow Gus during a time of food rationing, Victory gardens, watching for enemy planes—and keeping his ducks from harm.

Taking Wing

Book by Smith, Clyde, Graff, Nancy Price

The Enchantment of New England

Smith, Clyde

Travel

Graphic Arts Center Pub. Co.

Deane Chandler Davis (November 7, 1900 - December 8, 1990) was born in East Barre, Vermont. He was the 74th Governor of the U.S. state of Vermont from 1969 to 1973 and a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1948. Before becoming Governor, he worked as a lawyer, county prosecutor, Superior Court judge (1931-36), and president of the National Life Insurance Co. In his retirement he published two books of humorous stories about his experience as a country lawyer. Davis died December 8, 1990. Interment at Elmwood Cemetery, Barre, Vermont. His governorship was particularly noteworthy for the creation of a state sales tax. Davis also oversaw the 1970 enactment of Act 250, a law designed to control development and safeguard the environment, community life, and aesthetic character of the state.

Deane C. Davis: An Autobiography

Davis, Deane C.

New England Pr Inc

Celebrating Vermont: Myths and Realities

History

Saunders, Richard H.

Westbrook, Virginia A.

Americas

Middlebury College Museum of Art

Based on a true story, this tribute to everyday heroism doubles as a lyrical primer on how landscapes evolve.\nLong Pond—clear, reflective, and bent in the middle like a crooked finger—has been a source of joy and nourishment to a Vermont village for many years. But when a sudden late-summer storm causes the pond to swell and burst its banks, endangering everyone in its path, only one person is fast enough to warn the villagers downstream. Spencer Chamberlain, the long-legged winner of countless foot races, sprints off to cries of “Run, Chamberlain, run!” All survive, thanks to his efforts. But after the storm the glassy pond is gone, leaving the village, and future generations, with something altogether different—and every bit as nourishing. In a gentle tall tale inspired by true events that are explored in the book’s afterword, Vermont author Nancy Price Graff reveals the constantly evolving landscapes all around us, while Bagram Ibatoulline’s glorious paintings speak to the beauty and inevitability of change.

Runaway Pond

Candlewick

Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1942, nine government photographers (Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, Marion Post, Edwin and Louise Rosskam, Jack Delano, Fritz Henle and Al Freeman) traveled to Vermont on behalf of the U.S. government's Historical Section. What began as an effort to record for Washington bureaucrats the means whereby one of the nation's poorer regions coped with the Depression, New Deal economics, and the approach of World War, became, under the passionate and inexhaustible direction of Roy Stryker, the most sweeping U.S. government cultural history project ever undertaken in Vermont. In Looking Back at Vermont, Nancy Price Graff has painstakingly selected, from the approximately 1,600 project Vermont negatives housed at the Library of Congress, thirty-two representative images of Vermonters at work and play. This collection documents Vermont's breathtaking beauty and the state's heartbreaking poverty. Graff's engaging and well-written accompanying text includes pieces on the work of the Historical Section, Roosevelt's America, the individual photographers involved in the project, photography as a new visual language in this, the age which saw the launch of Life and Look magazines, and the progress of the already flourishing art of Vermont photography.

Looking Back at Vermont: Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1936-1942

Univ Pr of New England

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