Professor Daley Discusses Vermont's 'Dreamers, Freaks and Radicals'

FORBES -- To learn more, I exchanged this month by email with Yvonne Daley, an award-winning writer and author of the 2018 book, “Going Up the Country: When the Hippies, Dreamers, Freaks and Radicals Moved to Vermont.”

The small state attracted Northeastern U.S. outsider-transplants such as current U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and was a center of American commune growth in the 1960s and 1970s. At least two of the Chicago 7 — David Dellinger and John Froines — have ties to the state, whose liberal culture supported the early growth of “Ben and Jerry’s” ice cream before it was sold to conglomerate Unilever in 2000.

Interview excerpts with Daley, a retired Journalism professor at San Francisco State University now living in Vermont, follow.