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Nothing Hardly Ever Happens in Colbyville, Vermont is a collection of stories and essays written over 30 years in Colbyville, Vermont, a small hamlet in which resides Peter Miller and Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Plant. The essays are funny, sad, satiric and politically incorrect and the subjects range from Ben & Jerry's, fishing, poaching, skiing, social change, civil union, a suicide, Stowe the dropout capital of the East, a dog's death, fleas, ghosts and barnyard sex. The book is illustrated with 31 photographs taken by the author, who was honored by the Vermont State Legislature for documenting the culture of Vermont. He is also the author of Vermont People, Vermont Farm Women, and Vermont Gathering Places and has won numerous awards for his books and photographs.
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About the Author:
Author of seven books including The First Time I Saw Paris, Vermont People, Vermont Farm Women, Vermont Gathering Places, Nothing Ever Happens in Colbyville, Vermont. Recognized as leading Vermont photographer in documenting the people. Has had solo exhibitions in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Vermont. Has a website, petermillerphotography.com with portfolios of his photography.
Review:
Don't crack this book open unless you want to read stone-cold truth. Miller's stories aren't coated with maple syrup, they're plain, simple, and dignified...you know, the way we like to think Vermont still is? Peter Miller knows it isn't. Nothing Hardy Ever Happens in Colbyville, Vermont is Miller's entertaining, comical and very successful attempt to explain why. I loved reading it. --Rusty DeWees, actor and author of Scrawlins
Nothing Hardly Ever Happens in Colbyville, Vermont will be thoroughly enjoyed by any literary local-vore but also by anyone interested in sharing in the unique perspective of Vermont s most loveable curmudgeon a man who champions what is true and best about our State while offering a reasoned resistance to its rapidly changing landscape. The values reflected in the book are perhaps best summed up in the author s own words. I feel there is a lack in the 21st century, of the qualities that made this country great: honesty, integrity, common sense, simplicity, frugality and responsibility to your neighbors, your community and the land...I have learned, that the best material for photographs and for writing can be found in the region in which you live. --Scott Broderick, reviewer and song writer
Nothing Hardly Ever Happens in Colbyville, Vermont collects some of the very best of Miller's writing for the first time. Some of these stories are as hard as a Vermont Lake in January, like his investigation into a suicide site discovered while woodcock hunting; another is an irreverent confession to poaching on a private preserve. His letters to Ben & Jerry's (whose land he can spit on from his back deck), offer sharp satire, while his reportage on Fred Tuttle's funeral is classic commentary on Vermont's rural heritage. --Ed Gray, author and book publisher
Nothing Hardly Ever Happens in Colbyville, Vermont will be thoroughly enjoyed by any literary local-vore but also by anyone interested in sharing in the unique perspective of Vermont s most loveable curmudgeon a man who champions what is true and best about our State while offering a reasoned resistance to its rapidly changing landscape. The values reflected in the book are perhaps best summed up in the author s own words. I feel there is a lack in the 21st century, of the qualities that made this country great: honesty, integrity, common sense, simplicity, frugality and responsibility to your neighbors, your community and the land...I have learned, that the best material for photographs and for writing can be found in the region in which you live. --Scott Broderick, reviewer and song writer
Nothing Hardly Ever Happens in Colbyville, Vermont collects some of the very best of Miller's writing for the first time. Some of these stories are as hard as a Vermont Lake in January, like his investigation into a suicide site discovered while woodcock hunting; another is an irreverent confession to poaching on a private preserve. His letters to Ben & Jerry's (whose land he can spit on from his back deck), offer sharp satire, while his reportage on Fred Tuttle's funeral is classic commentary on Vermont's rural heritage. --Ed Gray, author and book publisher
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- PublisherSilver Print Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0974989061
- ISBN 13 9780974989068
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages162
- EditorPeter Miller
- IllustratorPeter Miller
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