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George G. O'Hagan Rutland, Vt...
Exiled Soviet Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn has not been heard from much since he settled last fall in Cavendish, Vt. (pop. 1,264), with his wife and children. The Nobel-prizewinning author rarely emerges from behind the wire fence protecting his secluded 50-acre estate. He did, however, request a luncheon with Vermont Governor Richard Shelling in Montpelier. Over Chateaubriand, Solzhenitsyn announced his plans to stay in Vermont-until the day comes when he can "return to a free Russia." Meanwhile he has been doing some writing in Cavendish, and plans to start a publishing house of his own, which will...
...ambitions, he has assigned himself at the start a small, local comedy of apparently modest import. An 80-year-old widow, Sally Abbott, has come home to the family farmhouse to live out her days with her widower brother James in the shadow of Prospect Mountain, near Bennington, Vt...
After his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974 and a stopover in Switzerland, Alexander Solzhenitsyn has packed his bags once again. Believing himself to be in danger from Soviet agents in Zurich, the Nobel prizewinner has apparently decided to settle near Cavendish, Vt. Though the author has kept mum about the move, a friend of his has recently purchased a home with 50.7 acres of land for $150,000 and acquired a town permit authorizing $250,000 in renovations. Solzhenitsyn, who listed Cavendish as his next residence with the U.S. Immigration Service, seems to have made a thorough adjustment...
...while, the little black box changed Emma Breen's life. As soon as the box was installed, Mrs. Breen, 64, switched her morning bath to the evening, washed her dishes before bedtime instead of after lunch and posted signs in her South Burlington, Vt., home admonishing guests not to use the hot water during certain hours. Down the street, the Dennis Cole family got a little black box too, but they used their hot water whenever they wanted...