Off the Leash: Subversive Journeys Around Vermont

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A collection of trip essays, written with an impossible to resist sense of humor, keen insight, and a taste for the off-beat. Off the Leash is an exuberant grand tour of a few of Vermont’s most interesting and undervalued places–from the Domestic Resurrection Circus performed by giant puppets in Glover, to the Dowser’s Labyrinth in Danville, to the birthplace of Joseph Smith, one of the vital founders of the Mormon Church, in Sharon. Vermont is filled with quirky places and colorful history, and Helen Husher’s collection of stories about her favorite haunts is one of the most captivating trip writing we’ve seen in years. At turns irreverent and witty, philosophical and wise–and all the time surprising–Off the Leash has elements in common with Bill Bryson’s The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town The us and Ian Frazier’s Great Plains. This book goes beyond Vermont and well beyond the world of tourism to explore “the richness of life and the treasures in it, and how we lose these things in a world that appears to be mostly about speed and cash.” It is a book sure to interest anyone with a taste for eccentric stories, for small-town dramas, for the way our places make us who we are. This collection is a finalist for the Heekin Group Foundation Writing Award.

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