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...members of the Northeast Kingdom Community Church in tiny Island Pond, Vt. (est. pop. 1,200), corporal punishment of children is part of their Fundamentalist creed. But to their neighbors, it looked like child abuse. There were reports from former church members that babies less than six months old were hit with wooden rods. One 13-year-old girl was said to have been beaten for eight hours, until her body was covered with welts, as punishment for telling a lie. Said Linda Schneider, a former church member: "A child would cry, and they would beat him with...
...weekend Mr. Baker had me drive him to Dorset, Vt., where he was to judge a play competition between one-acters written by former pupils of his. The other judges were poet Alfred Kreyin borg and critic, wit and, in Baker's opinion, arch-poseur, Alexander Woollcott. Just as Mr. Baker had told me he would, Woollcott--even out in the sticks--insisted on holding the curtain 15 minutes, so he could make a dramatic appearance, swooping down the center aisle, complete with opera cloak and gold-topped walking stick...
North Bennington, Vt...
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Leone M. Cobb Hardwick, Vt...