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Mark Bushnell
CommentatorMark Bushnell is a Vermont journalist and historian. He is the author and co-author of several books on Vermont history, including It Happened in Vermont. His regular column, Life in the Past Lane, appears in the Rutland Herald and Barre-Montpelier Times Argus.
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Vermont started electing governors even before it was a state. As Vermont gets ready to elect its 82nd governor, writer and author Mark Bushnell spoke…
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If Vermont ever had an Ebenezer Scrooge, it was Silas Griffith.He was bold, ambitious and often shrewd to the point of heartlessness. Griffith lived to…
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Neshobe Island wasn’t a place you visited without an invitation. That's what some tourists discovered one day, when they pulled their boat ashore and were…