It all started with bachelor buttons, the long-stemmed wildflowers. My childhood friend Muriel Ann Glitzengelder and I stood in a store, where I had picked up a silk stem of the bright blue flowers.

(1.) Culture. — Husbandry: the first of settled arts, though not so old as the arts of war and the chase. The Centennial Exhibition furnished us with implements in this line as crude as those in any ...

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jules Rabin, who came to Vermont in 1968 to teach at Goddard College and 10 years later shifted to baking bread in a wood-fired oven. He lives in Plainfield.