In 1968 the photographer Richard Brown fulfilled a romantic childhood dream when he moved to the Northeast Kingdom, a remote corner of Vermont just barely entering the twentieth century. There he encountered a way of life that was fast disappearing, a land of sheep, cattle, work horses, wood-burning stoves, and small family-run farms far removed from the industrial Northeast. Determined to record it before it disappeared, he saw a pastoral vision where, ?for the briefest interval, a window opened and the spirit of Vermont?s past?granite hills cleared and formed, hard lives lived and lost, struggle and endurance, a harsh land made starkly beautiful by nature and man?was made palpable.? He saw the land and also a people whose ?endless hours of backbreaking, monotonous work were spent with a quiet ferocity? and who believed their ?age-old labors were a struggle waged against time itself ? labors...
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