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About 40 years ago in April 1981, if memory serves; the late Marvin Midgette was the
Valley News editorial page editor when I began this weekly spasm, I still fancied that the only way I could compose an essay was the way I always had: on lined paper with pen and ink. So, after I had each week’s column done (I wrote then under a
nom de plume), I typed it out and delivered it by hand to the newspaper office, where, I assume, another typist prepared it for editing and printing. This wasn’t quite the Dark Ages; my typewriter was a Smith Corona electric that snapped hungrily at each tap of my fingers, especially the mistakes.
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Vermont state lawmakers are now considering issuing an apology for eugenics
90 years later, the Vermont General Assembly may apologize for Eugenics Share Updated: 11:39 AM EDT Apr 1, 2021
90 years later, the Vermont General Assembly may apologize for Eugenics Share Updated: 11:39 AM EDT Apr 1, 2021 Almost a century after the eugenics survey of Vermont, state lawmakers are now considering whether the general assembly should issue an apology. My grandmother was listed in the eugenics survey and she had to change her name three times to avoid the survey, says Don Stevens, Chief of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuck – Abenaki Nation.Stevens is still working to heal old wounds left behind from Eugenics, it caused a lot of people to deny their heritage or pass that heritage on, says Chief Stevens. Vermonters of Native American Indian heritage, including French-Indian and Abenaki families, and persons of mixed ethnicity and of French-Canadian heritage, as