In January 2021, an image took the Internet by storm: U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders sitting at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, bundled up in a coat and wearing a pair of
ESSEX JUNCTION — In 2021, President Joe Biden’s inauguration sent Jen Ellis spiraling into relative fame when a photo of Senator Bernie Sanders wearing mittens she made became a viral
“The world might have learned about me because of some mittens I made,” she said, “but there s a whole intricate backstory that people don t know, that is interesting. And that has a theme of empowerment and generosity and kindness, and it has a path in the end to joy.”