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...Woodstock, Vt., is the very model of the picturesque New England country town. It has a tranquil village green, stately brick and stone houses, and a postcard vista of the ski slopes in the adjoining hills. So it is only natural that outside investors (notably Laurance Rockefeller) have bought property there, and that the population of 1,150 includes a sizable proportion of writers, artists and wealthy exurbanites...
...just as natural that James Wright, a dapper young lawyer from Detroit, should settle on Woodstock ten years ago as a good place to practice. In due time, he became a director of the Woodstock National Bank, president of the Rotary Club, and even (from 1964 to 1968) the prosecuting attorney for surrounding Windsor County. Yet apparently his grasp exceeded his legal reach. Wright, 44, stands accused of writing himself and his family into the wills of lonely widows...
Following Instructions. The reading of the Garceau will set in motion an examination of Wright's activities. Other lawyers reported numerous requests for revamping of wills that Wright had drafted. Wright declined to seek re-election as director of the Woodstock National Bank, a decision reportedly prompted by other board members...
Wright continues to be highly visible around Woodstock. He has filed an exhaustive 63-page brief with the Vermont Supreme Court, denying all of the attorney general's charges and declaring that he was only following the instructions of his clients. And a good many of the citizens of Woodstock choose to believe him. In such a friendly country village, said one Wright critic, "they just refuse to believe he's guilty of all those things...
...first, Medicine Ball Caravan looks like another whelp from the Woodstock litter. The idea was to have some freaks travel cross-country in Day-Glo buses disseminating rock music, good vibes and easygoing propaganda for the counterculture. Warner Bros, would pack along a camera crew to record the music, the interaction and the scenery...