The people in Vermont are wonderful, on the whole. There are a lot of refugees from Brooklyn, and a crust of old money Yankees. Silent Cal would not recognize the place, that’s for sure. Before he died in 1930, with Hoover in the White House, Coolidge said he no longer recognized this country any more. That whirring sound coming from Plymouth Notch is Cal and his ancestors spinning in their graves.
I have been to his grave site. The stone looked too new--as if it was a replacement for an original marker that had been stolen or vandalized.