I didn't come to Vermont as hippie, a back-to-the-lander, or as political progressive. I came to Vermont as a young man in 1983, as a born-again evangelical, with a year of Bible college under my belt, trying to find myself creatively and intellectually through higher education at Marlboro College.
Not a typical path, I know, but that path also included stop-overs and visits to many evangelical churches in the Brattleboro community, including the Community Bible Chapel, the Church of Christ, and the West Brattleboro Baptist Church.