From The East, Bearing Gifts: Vermont’s Firsts To The Nation
by G. Donald Peabody
A first itself, From the East, Bearing Gifts: Vermont’s Firsts to the Nation is composed of fifteen essays, interspersed by chronological notes of varying lengths, all memorializing Vermont’s people, places, and things that came first in the history of the United States of America from colonial- to present-times.
An appendix—On the Road Again—is a sort of travel prospectus for those who’d like to encounter something tangible of each of the book’s major subjects.
From the East also creates a web-based, interactive milieu for author-reader exchange, launching The Journal for Further Research, a means by which readers may, famously, have the last word.
“Beautifully written, brimful of insights and humor, unpredictable as our northern New England weather... the best history I’ve ever read of the last best place east of the Mississippi: the Independent Republic of Vermont. I have never read anything remotely like it before—I loved every page!
— Howard Frank Mosher”
In the words of a critical reader: “From the East is a book every student in, and every student of, Vermont, will want.”
Learn more about author G. Donald Peabody.