Firearms, Frontier, Family: We Move to Vermont

Colt 45 ACP, from a gun safety article by my husband, R.

When I tell how and why I moved to Vermont in 1978, with my second husband R and our four-month-old baby, a lot depends on who’s listening. Often I start the tale by saying “we found a classified ad in the New York Times and rented a farmhouse, sight-unseen, in Irasburg, ten miles from the Canada border.”

Sometimes I add that the farmhouse, high on a ridge, was uninsulated and took…