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n the mid-20th century , Arlington , Vermont was home to a remarkable creative colony :
Five celebrated Saturday Evening Post Illustrators ( Norman Rockwell , Mead Schaeffer , George Hughes , Gene Pelham , and John Atherton ); Best-selling Author and Social Activist Dorothy Canfield Fisher ; Cartoonist Don Trachte ; and Composer Carl Ruggles . One town over ( seven minutes South ) lived poet Robert Frost . Publisher Robert Haas ( of Random House ) split his time between NYC and Arlington . Just a decade or two earlier , Rockwell Kent called Arlington home .
10 of the 11 names on the list are men . There is a 12th name missing .
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