Vermont People: Millennium Edition

by Peter Miller

Book Overview

A revised and updated edition of Peter Miller's classic book. Features a foreword by Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962806439
• ISBN13: 9780962806438
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Silver Print Pr
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 12.5"

Customer Reviews

Vermonter approved

Anyone who has lived in the state of Vermont throughout the generations knows the kind of people portrayed in this book. Our grandparents and neighbors were these kind of people. Hard working, humble and just a bit sarcastic but a refreshing reminder of what many of us traditional Vermonters claim as heritage. Vermonter dot com heartily endorses this book and it's easy to see why. Reading this book and seeing the photos (one of which is a character who used to deliver my firewood in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont) is somehow reassuring and a reminder of what really made Vermont famous. Now that Vermont has taken a very weird turn to the left, it has become an entirely different place to live. This book is a testimony to the true Vermont and it's people who are sadly fading into history. Thanks for the memories.

Real Vermonters, enjoy!

Miller does a wonderful job highlighting the themes that thread through the lives of Real Vermonters. As a half-Vermonter (though I was born in Vermont, my father didn't move here until he was in 6th grade) everything that was said ressonated with me. Miller made clear the peculiar distintion us Vermonters make about who's a "flatlander" and who isn't. Miller included in his vingettes Real Vermonters that were not Native Vermonters, and showed that our state is not snobby, or eletist; for we do welcome out-of-staters, as long as they're willing to become Vermonters rather than forcing Vermont to become "New Conneticuit". Reading this book made me miss the Vermont that I'm barely old enough to remember, and to weep at its loss. The black and white photos show a serious side to the Green Mountain State that tourists don't really care to see when they come visit in October. The way that Miller was able to work his way around central Vermont, and still keep many of the stories tied to one another forged together the distance of a country mile with the closeness of a neighbor. Adorned with precious gems of Vermont history (did you know Vermont is home to the first ski mountain rop-tow? or the greatest moose-hereford love story of all time? ) Miller shows us with grace and humility the independant, unqiue, sincere and True Vermont

Vermont Peole by Peter Miller

Growing up in Hudson Falls, a small town in upstate Ny near the Vermont border,it brought me back home, now that I live in Oklahoma. I have a sister that lives in Ludlow Vt. After reading the book and not visited there in such a long time, it took me back. The black & white photos have shown a technique that a lot of photographers have forgotten.The book was very well illistrated, the soft lights and shadows caught my eye in a sence that time has set still for that one split momet. I felt that Mr. Miller topped the cake with this book. I hope that he continues this type of work for a long time.