A collection of images from the 2013 book A Lifetime of Vermont People from celebrated Vermont author and photographer Peter Miller.
The following slideshow represent a small selection of photographs from his latest book which was published in the summer of 2013, A Lifetime of Vermont People. In it are profiles and photographs of 60 Vermonters the author has recorded over the past 63 years. It is recognized as a seminal book on rural Vermonters. Some call these Vermonters a “Vanishing Species”.
“The Yankee Coast,” acrylic on canvas, by D.A. Gordon Dart.
“George Washington” by Joseph Christian Leyendecker.
Few New Englanders would describe the memorable 2013 Red Sox season as anything short of miraculous. With Boston recovering from the spring Marathon bombing tragedy, the Red Sox put together a comeback season for the ages, one that mirrored the city’s strength and resiliency to “B” Strong; to set to mind a task, and get it […]
S.D. Ireland’s truck number 6 sits in the third bay of the garage on Grove Street in South Burlington, being prepped for its next outing. Unlike the concrete trucks in the first and second bays, number 6 won’t be delivering concrete for sidewalks, driveways, foundations, footings or bridges anytime soon. Its drum has been washed […]
Each spring, the research ship Henry B. Bigelow drags a net along the seafloor in the Gulf of Maine, cataloguing the fish it catches. What it finds will change the life of every fisherman in New England and impact every consumer who loves seafood.
Fifty years after the death of President John F. Kennedy, those who knew him and his extended family in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, reflect on a time when Camelot was their neighbor.
November 1993 | “Cornucopia” (detail) by Joyce Patti.
Yankee Magazine profiles three New Englanders who are making an extraordinary difference in others’ lives.
November 1973 | “Summer Place,” by Eric Sloane.
According to the Veterans Administration, 680 U.S. veterans of World War II die every day. Too often, their stories die with them. The men and women who served from 1941 to 1945 were not encouraged to talk about their experiences. Perhaps that’s why, when Edie Clark asked her father about his service, he would reply, […]
Here in Vermont, there are still more barns from the last two to three centuries than there are box stores from this one. Armed with Thomas Durant Visser’s Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings, and The Vermont Barn Census brochure of “Historic Barn Types,” my recent Sunday drive to gaze at these inspiring […]
