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\"\"Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n

My interest in the Red Scare began in the early 1960s, when I was a teenager growing up in Yonkers, New York. I was dimly aware that my parents, as New York City schoolteachers, were affected by the McCarthy Era, and my curiosity about their experiences was sharpened on getting to know the children of blacklisted actors, writers, and musicians at summer camp (Buck\u2019s Rock in New Milford, Connecticut). I now had some questions for my parents about the years when their jobs were threatened, and they openly shared their memories of those years.<\/p>\n

Curiosity about my parents\u2019 experiences coincided with the blossoming of what turned out to be my lifelong passion for films and film history, and I discovered that studying the Hollywood Blacklist gave me a framework to understand what my parents had lived through. A friend jokingly commented that while my classmates could rattle off the starting lineup of the New York Yankees, I could name all the members of the \u201cHollywood Ten.\u201d<\/p>\n

I had become hooked watching old films on TV at a young age. I went to Columbia College and University of California, Berkeley, where there were many opportunities to catch up on films while putting off writing English Literature papers. I moved to Vermont in 1970 and shortly afterward founded the Lightning Ridge Film Society, which morphed into the Savoy Theater in 1981. I was one of the founders of\u00a0Montpelier\u2019s Green Mountain Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0 and was its Programming Director until 2012.<\/p>\n

I arrived in Vermont shortly after the end of the Phil Hoff years, when Vermont had finally become a two-party state. The Liberty Union had just been founded by Bernie Sanders, William H. Meyer and others, in response to the Democratic Party\u2019s tepid response to the Vietnam War. It didn\u2019t take me long to start wondering what had transpired here during the late 40s and early 50s. Eventually I met two others who shared my interest: Michael Sherman, who arrived in the mid 1980s to head the Vermont Historical Society, and Richard Hathaway, a history instructor first at Goddard College and then at Vermont College\u2019s Adult Degree Program. The three of us organized the 1988 conference, \u201cVermont in the McCarthy Era,\u201d which (of course) had a film component: \u201cPoint of Order,\u201d \u201cThe Front,\u201d and \u201cHollywood on Trial.\u201d It was this conference that planted the seeds for this book.<\/p>\n

My wife Andrea Serota and I sold the Savoy Theater in 2009, and since then, I have been been teaching film at Burlington College, Community College of Vermont (Montpelier), and the Montpelier Senior Activity Center, while speaking on film subjects for the Vermont Humanities Council. Some of my other interests are music (playing traditional music of all kinds on the accordion), constructing twice-monthly\u00a0\u201cdouble crostic\u201d puzzles\u00a0for the Times Argus\/Rutland Herald, and the renovation of the Adamant Community Club, a former one-room schoolhouse just down the road from where we live in Calais.<\/p>\n

Book Information
\n<\/strong>Red Scare in the Green Mountains: Vermont in the McCarthy Era 1946-1960
\nPublication Date: July 25, 2018
\nISBN: 978-1-57869-007-7
\neISBN: tba
\nLCCN: tba
\nPrice: $14.95
\n6 X 9 Trade Paperback Format<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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