Town Meeting Day
In this collection of short stories and poems, the reader will be brought back in time…quite literally. Marie Warner wrote consistently for Vermont’s Green Mountain Trading Post for nearly twenty years, her own trove of personal stories compiling for more than fifty years. There, among telling narrations of growth, she recounts the moment she went into labor on the side of the road, later giving birth at a neighbors house, no midwife nearby.
A collection of short stories by my great grandmother …
Here, there are stories of a young woman during the second World War, listening over the radio to hear news of the war’s end. Marie brings us back to the olden days, recounting life without electricity, where one once traveled by horse and carriage. She describes her vibrant and curious childhood, and life as a mother raising a large family in the countryside, nights of churning butter by the flickering light of a lantern