Landmark Memories: A Vermont Village 1930s-1950s - Paperback

by Joyce Slayton Mitchell (Author)

More than "the good old days," destined only for the memoir and history-buff markets; more than the "community-building" market to describe America's fall from working and playing together books, Landmark Memories tells stories, vignettes, really, of a Vermont village. Describing the school, the library, Main Street, and more with an array of people from the town's iceman, teacher, neighbor, village worker, and kids living and playing together, focused on the 1930s and 1940s. The time when Americans naturally lived and cared together in village life. These are the togetherness stories that people around the globe are now dreaming about from their isolation in our pandemic times. Stories about family, friends, and community, as they search for wholeness as never before, dreaming of America's best democracy.

Author Biography

Joyce Slayton Mitchell's focused career was built on more than 35 years as Director of College Advising in America's public and independent schools of Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York City. Expert in U.S. college admissions, writer, lecturer, and consultant to schools and education systems, Mitchell left the Nightingale-Bamford School in NYC for more adventure in China. She worked in Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai bringing AP curriculum into the public schools until 2015. She then consulted with Chinese college admissions entrepreneurs until 2020 when she left China at the beginning of the pandemic. She currently works remotely with U.S. and Chinese students applying to American colleges.