Luke Eastman | Rev. Diane Sullivan Eleanor Abbot "contracted polio at age 36" and came up with the concept of a classic children's board game "while convalescing in the hospital polio ward in 1947 with numerous children sufferers," the Our cover this week, spawned in this COVID-19 era, is based ever so loosely on the game but is decidedly not for kids. There's no Licorice Lagoon or Peppermint Forest — just the "hazards" of a Red Tape Snarl and a Governor's Veto. The board depicts in a whimsical way the twisting path Vermont has taken toward next year's start of legalized sales of cannabis for adults.