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Do Vermont authors have a story to tell or what?
This little state is known for a large number of writers with seemingly endless supplies of stories to tell. Vermont also has a lot of interesting stories to be told about it, as the number of books giving the state a mention is pretty impressive as well.
With the summer-reading season within reach, let’s go over some of the books by Vermont authors or about Vermont that have come out in recent weeks or will be out before summer is over. As we all know, summer ends quickly around here, so grab a book, sit under a shady tree and dive in.
Grab a Dictionary, Save the Republic
A new book the author calls “an owner’s manual for American citizens” recovers a lost language that Americans need to talk with each other about things that matter.
May 23, 2021 •
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Distressed at the dearth of civic understanding in the United States, Ed Hagenstein worked for over two decades to create
The Language of Liberty: A Citizen’s Vocabulary. Its purpose is simple: the constitution demands consensus and our form of government requires discourse, which depends in turn on a precise and nuanced vocabulary of its own. Hagenstein has set out to recover 101 words that are essential to the American experiment, many largely lost to disuse or misuse.
A desert awakening: Florence resident Celia Jeffries pens debut novel, ‘Blue Desert’
Tuaregs in Mali, outside Timbuktu, in 2012. They are sometimes called the “blue people” or “blue men” for their indigo-dyed clothing. Photo by Alfred Weidinger/Wikipedia/public domain
“Blue Desert” is the debut novel by Celia Jeffries of Florence, a former newspaper editor and educational publisher who now teaches at the Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop in Williamsburg. The book’s striking cover is by Florence graphic designer Lisa Carta. SUBMITTED
The main character in “Blue Desert,” Alice George, travels with a group of Tuareg, semi-nomadic Muslims shown here. Tuareg traditionally have lived in parts of the Sahara Desert stretching from modern-day Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina. Photo by Alfred Weidinger/Wikipedia/public domain
The Mountain Times
Former Vermont Attorney General publishes memoir
Rootstock Publishing, a Montpelier-based publisher and imprint of Multicultural Media, Inc., announces the release of “A Lawyer’s Life to Live”, a memoir by Kimberly B. Cheney, Vermont Attorney General (1973-1975), of Montpelier.
“A Lawyer’s Life to Live” is about a unique time when Vermont culture was ready for change, and one young lawyer heeded the call. In 1965, Kim Cheney worked for a law firm in New Haven, Connecticut, trying cases involving fights about money. Wanting to contribute to more socially minded work, and rekindle his love of nature, Cheney, with his wife and two young kids, moved to Vermont in 1967. The journey led to rising political influence as Cheney became Vermont state attorney general, among other roles. The memoir also covers the Paul Lawrence Affair, in which an ambitious St. Albans detective framed innocent people, a disintegrating marriage, newfound love, adoption and reuni