By Joshua Sherman M.D
Photos/Art courtesy of Perez Ehrich
I
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.
MISSING:
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