A Reporter's Vermont: An Eclectic Look at a Diverse State

These essays by Ed Barna paint a portrait of the community that is Vermont. When he was President of Middlebury College, John McCardell described Ed as the best practicing journalist in Vermont.

Ed Barna was a basketball prodigy who became a Harvard intellectual who became a husband and father who became a historian who became a journalist. In these pages you will find the humanity of a curious mind. Tim McQuiston, editor of Vermont Business Magazine

I have gone through life encountering people who are very smart, but Ed Barna is hands down the smartest and most perceptive person I've ever known. Dr. Richard Rawson, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at UCLA

After graduating Magna Cum Laude with a degree in English Literature from Harvard, Ed was selected to be the poet-in-residence at Robert Frost Farm during the years when it was being converted into a state park and historic landmark. He then went on to a distinguished career in journalism, reporting for both Vermont newspapers and magazines. His book, Covered Bridges of Vermont, is the most comprehensive guide to these links to Vermont's history.