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Vermont Reads 2008 |
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“Sharing Our Past — Shaping Our Future” Since 1974 |
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Office in Montpelier
11 Loomis Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 802.262.2626 Fax: 802.262.2620 E-mail: info@vermonthumanities.org |
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Welcome to Vermont Reads Explore the power of a richly told life story, the magic of poetry, and a New England world of yesteryear. This year’s Vermont Reads book is A Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost, by award-winning biographer Natalie Bober. First published in 1981, this young-adult biography of one of America’s most celebrated poets retains all the charm and substance that only a classic can.
Winner of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, A Restless Spirit offers possibilities for rich discussion and extension activities. Poetry, biography, Frost’s life in Vermont, farming, the importance of place and setting to the writer’s life, the natural world, traditional and non-traditional education, including home-schooling, family dynamics, and following one’s dreams are just some of the subjects communities can explore.
Vermont Reads brings communities and people of all ages together to read a book and do activities centered around it. In 2007, sixty-six communities took part in Vermont Reads Counting on Grace.
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Vermont Reads
Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost |
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A Statewide, One-Book Community Reading Program |
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“When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I’d waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I’d waste my life and be a poet. They were right.”
—Robert Frost |
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UNDERWRITER |
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MEDIA SPONSOR |
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With support from the Jack & Dorothy Byrne Foundation |