Alone In The Crowd
April, 1993
an anthem to privacyIn Vermont the room where I work is not far from the site of an old saloon--the historical-society types would call it a tavern--where Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys liked to pause for refreshment. Whipping up on the Tories was thirsty work. Righteous work, too. These men were among the first skirmishers in what would become the American Revolution.There was a doctor who once gave Ethan tight jaws over something. In retribution, Allen and some of the boys tied the do...