Preserving "the best-known small town in America"
By Nancy A. Olson My journey to Windham College began with an F in eleventh grade English, my favorite subject since I first learned to read. Because I didn’t like the teacher, I decided I would show her by not doing any work. At the age of seventeen, I had a very fuzzy understanding of … Read more
By Barbara Taylor It’s Labor Day weekend, September 1965. The car is packed and my parents are driving me up to Windham College (about 500 students) in Putney, VT. We take the highway system up through Connecticut and pick up Interstate 91. We reach Greenfield, MA and have to get off, it hasn’t been finished … Read more
An excerpt from Beyond the Classroom by Bill Holiday In 1969 Windham County appointed a new Sheriff, Putney’s William ‘Bill’ Graham. He found himself ”very often being a referee between Windham College and the locals.” Graham was a one-man sheriff’s department who had some “local fellows who erroneously believed that since the sheriff lived in Putney, … Read more