As originally published in The Atlantic Monthly September 1989 Brigadoon, USA A visit to an archetypal Vermont town by Jack Beatty Vermont is my birthright.
People there are happy and content.
A visitor trying to sum Grafton up is left helpless before the task of distinguishing between views equally lovely, antique houses equally graceful, church steeples equally eloquent against the star-shot night sky. Yet it is no lavish fossil, like Williamsburg, Virginia. Real life goes on in Grafton. There my wife and I fetched up, at the start of a recent visit, to lay plans about what to do in Grafton. Nine ski resorts are within an hour's drive.