Eden

Located in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, Eden appears a quiet community of Adventists, Mennonites, and Quakers where dairy farmers, mill workers, and craftsmen gather at the general stores, dinners are served in old wooden churches, and dances are held at the local Grange Hall. The rivers of Eden all spring from Eden and the views are as ravishing as the garden from which it takes its name. But it is also a hard and rugged place, where resourceful and independent inhabitants still labor stoically, as their ancestors before them.

Imag[in]ing America depicts a series of locations in the United States as a residue of cultural memory and inheritance. It is a metaphorical memoir a narrative re-telling of facts and fictions and an exploration of the dreamland that still is America.