Tom Slayton
CommentatorTom Slayton is a longtime journalist, editor and author who lives in Montpelier.
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To my mind, the passing of Vermont Life Magazine is a sad and sobering cultural milestone.It was founded in 1946, when Vermont needed to promote itself鈥�
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Historians debate whether historic change is made by forceful men and women, or by larger forces 鈥� trends and events that push human beings into actions鈥� -
Old Vermont, the Vermont many of us grew up in, was rural, isolated, and poor in many material aspects - but rich in tradition, humor, and dignity.That鈥�
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She may be the best-known, most widely recognized sculpture in the State of Vermont, and she stood at her post, high atop Vermont鈥檚 most important鈥� -
The publication this month of Green Mountain Scholar: Samuel B. Hand commemorates the legacy of a man who 鈥� in the process of changing his own thinking鈥�
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It鈥檚 hard to imagine that Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Vermont author and ultra-respectable taste-setter in the Nineteen-Thirties and Forties, could become a鈥�
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Holiday dinners are not what they used to be for my family. They鈥檙e smaller and quieter. Parents and grandparents on both sides of the family are long鈥�
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Summers when I was a boy, we鈥檇 sometimes go to visit my uncle, who had a small farm on the shores of Lake Champlain. Occasionally we鈥檇 take his old鈥�
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As you turn off busy Route 7 in Ferrisburgh and pull into Rokeby, the historic home of the Rowland Robinson family, you might think that you鈥檙e entering a鈥�
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History lies in thousand-year-old layers at Chimney Point in West Addison, a place where the eastern and western shores of Lake Champlain come close鈥�
