 What makes Vermont tick? How do the pieces come together to make the Green Mountain State the unusual place that it is? This insider’s guide to all things Vermont has the answers, and they come from a real expert: Vermont Life Editor Tom Slayton.  

Finding Vermont: An Informal Guide to Vermont's Places and People

Travel

Slayton, Tom

United States

Vermont Life Magazine

What makes Vermont tick? How do the pieces come together to make the Green Mountain State the unusual place that it is? This insider’s guide to all things Vermont has the answers, and they come from a real expert: Vermont Life Editor Tom Slayton.

<p>Her prints hang in the boardrooms of some of North America’s biggest corporations―and in the cabins of some of New England’s most rustic fishing camps. Among the few contemporary artists whose work has found an enthusiastic following well outside the traditional world of collectors and fine-art experts, Sabra Field has attracted a diverse and growing national audience. Her 1987 Vermont Bicentennial commemorative stamp, for example, depicting yellow farm fields, a red barn, and blue mountains, quickly became one of the U.S. Postal Service’s best-selling issues, with more than 60 million copies purchased. Author Tom Slayton says that Field, who lives deep in the Vermont countryside, brilliantly expresses “a rural zeigeist in her wood-block prints that is in the age-old traditional of pastoralism . . . which belies the underlying complexity of her work.” But while Field’s work falls solidly within the pastoral tradition, it also significantly updates it, striking a chord with activist environmentalists and policymakers and inspiring action not normally associated with the traditions of pastoral art. One of North America’s most accomplished contemporary printmakers, Sabra Field produces works of great beauty and boldness―with the power to command attention and appreciation at first glance and to endure the test of time in the eyes of their beholders. She is also coauthor of Before Life Hurries On.</p>

Sabra Field: The Art of Place

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

University Press of New England

Chapters Pub Ltd

<b>Searching for Thoreau</b> vividly transports the reader to the places in New England that were most important to the great American writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau in ten vigorous essays that range from Walden Pond to the shores of Cape Cod and the heights of Mount Katahdin in northern Maine. Retracing Thoreau's steps from 150 years ago in a series of hikes and excursions, author Tom Slayton shares Thoreau's colorful descriptions of his experiences in nature along with his own first-hand observations of the same places today, and reflects on the changes wrought by time and man.

Searching for Thoreau: On the Trails and Shores of Wild New England (Images from the Past)

Literature & Fiction

Applewood Books

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Finding Vermont: An Informal Guide to Vermont's Places and People

Finding Vermont: An Informal Guide to Vermont's Places and People

Sabra Field: The Art of Place

Sabra Field: The Art of Place

Searching for Thoreau: On the Trails and Shores of Wild New England (Images from the Past)