Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They cut through solid marble to make his grave, and yet a little tombstone they put above him was from Vermont. They buried him in the heart of a pine forest, and yet the pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati. They buried him within touch of an iron mine, and yet the nails in his coffin and the iron in the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pittsburgh. They buried him by the side of the best sheep-grazing country on the earth and yet the wool in the coffin bands and the coffin bands themselves were brought...
This isn't the first time Earle Newton has turned a shoestring into a magazine. A graduate of Amherst, where he founded its literary magazine, Touchstone, he served as a Navy historian in World War II, then went back to his job running Vermont's Historical Society. He decided to start a magazine devoted to regional, grass-roots history, try to make it as readable as a good newspaper. The state put up $5,000 to start Newton's quarterly Vermont Life. Fearfully, Newton ordered 11,000 copies for the first issue; it sold out in three...
...American Heritage, Newton uses the same newsy editorial approach and format he uses in Vermont Life. He still sticks to regional history, but his regions are selected from all over the U.S. Well on his way toward making the past as readable as the present, he tries to keep an even balance between things (Conestoga wagons, railroads, the American eagle), places and people (Garfield's assassin, Lincoln as a horse tamer), and events (Tippecanoe, the Bear Flag revolt). Newton, who is also a director of Massachusetts' famed Old Sturbridge Village (TIME, Nov. 5), puts out the magazine...
Detroit's Institute of Arts is one of the nation's biggest and best museums. Its Italian Renaissance building (of Vermont marble) covers a city block, and holds treasures ranging from an Assyrian bas-relief to a mural by Diego Rivera. The public's favorite painting is Pieter Bruegel the Elder's big, brash The Wedding Dance...
Hart started out like a normal clean-cut American boy at Putney School in Vermont. Skiing was the big thing at Putney, and in his freshman year there he took it up. By his last year he had become proficient enough to be the student instructor in the sport...