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Book takes look at Kipling's U.S. years Author's short visit to his in-laws became 4-year-stay in Vermont
From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19971228
Author:ANNE WALLACE ALLEN
Bundled in hairy goatskin and buffalo lap robes, Rudyard Kipling got his first tour of Vermont in a horse-drawn sleigh on a snowy February night.
It took Kipling, fresh from England, by surprise.
"Thirty below freezing! It was inconceivable till one stepped out into it at midnight, and the first shock of that clear, still air took away the breath as does a plunge into seawater," Kipling wrote of arriving in Vermont from New York City on Feb. 17, 1892. But Kipling quickly came to love rural Brattleboro, winters and all. He had come planning to pay a short visit to his in-laws and to catch ...
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