“In Vermont????” This is the response I hear when I mention recently reading Yvonne Daley’s Going Up Country (2011 New England University Press). The book details the movement of many fringe groups to Vermont in the 1960s and 70s. She also mentions the state once embraced eugenics.
Vermont had a eugenics program in the mid 20th century. According to the law, to legally sterilize “idiots, imbeciles, feeble‐minded or insane…
