The Long Light of Those Days: Recollections of a Vermont Village at Mid-Century

Since its first publication in 2005, Bruce Coffin’s fantastically written account of rising up in Woodstock, Vermont, within the 1950s has turn into a New England traditional. The particulars of life in a typical Vermont village — the work locations and shops, the sports activities and pastimes, the panorama, and most of all of the individuals — are affectionately recalled in a Proustian feat of reminiscence and creativeness. In these surprising particulars the essence of a complicated, microcosmic world is recaptured and introduced again to life.