Vrest Orton tells of the ecstatic pause in eternity, the perfect moments in his life when he saw genius plain. Spending many an afternoon together, Orton, a Vermont native, and Robert Frost, Vermont’s adopted son, found much to talk about. It was in the late 1920s and early 1930s that Vrest Orton began to assimilate the conversation and the greatness of Robert Frost. How well he did this is attested by the evocative verse in this book. It is surely a tribute to their great and lasting friendship. Included in this book are extracts from letters from Robert Frost to Vrest Orton, never before published. One letter begins “Sometime in the fall when the flood of summer people has subsided, you and I will be left still clinging to the rocks of Vermont.” Here too is the finest portrait ever taken of Frost (by famous photographer Clara Sipprell of Manchester, Vermont).
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Vrest Orton served in France during World War I, had a distinguished career in book and magazine publishing for twenty years, and then moved back to Vermont after Pentagon service following World War II to found The Vermont Country Store, which issues one of America’s most trusted and popular mail-order catalogs.
