Books Reviewed in
2003
Here are the Book of the Month Selections
reviewed to-date in 2003. Interested in previous Book of the Month Selections? See our index by year since we started in 1997 or search on your own.
 March 2003: Green
Mountain Reflections: Stories of the Green Mountains by
B.B. Woods and Bernice Barnett, paperback
There is nothing fancy or glitzy
about this self-published book, but it is filled with a warmth and
humor that immediately transports you to the Green Mountains. This
collection of vignettes, family stories, and good-humored narratives
takes the reader on a sentimental journey into Vermont life in days
gone by.
Bertell Burnett ("B.B.")
was married to Ralph Woods and expecting their first child when
Bernice Burnett was born. Twenty years and four brothers were between
them, but the two sisters have always remained close. B.B. currently
resides in Woodford, VT, while Bernice has remained in Halifax, VT
where she was born and raised and married to Carleton Barnett (she
insists that she didn't choose here husband based on the fact that she
would only have to change one letter of her last name!) A total of
seven children and twenty-four grandchildren ensure future stories of
the Green Mountains from these two sisters.
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Green Mountain
Reflections, paperback |
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January 2003: Vermont
Farm Women by Peter Miller, hardcover
Four years in the making, this
new book, published in October, 2002, profiles in photographs and
words 44 Vermont farm women -- dairy, horse, cattle, sheep, goat, pig,
chicken and Christmas tree farmers, vegetable and flower gardeners and
matriarchs. "Women are now the largest group in America buying
small farms," said Miller, "and one estimate is that within
10 years 75% of American farm land will be controlled by women. This
small revolution started in Vermont and is spreading across the
country."
Currently, 782 women own and
operate small farms in Vermont, an increase of 8 percent in the past
twelve years. In a beautiful companion volume to his classic Vermont
People, Peter Miller's Vermont Farm Women puts faces and
stories to these statistics and show that this small rural state is
setting a national trend.
"The woman of the farm --
she could be a wife, she could be a mother, she could be the farmer
herself. No matter which she is, she's still the most important person
on the farm and don't let nobody tell you no different." --
George Woodard, Film Actor and Organic Dairy Farmer.
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since we started reviewing in 1997.
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