Imet Carl Blaisdell back in 2018, while I was working on a story for Brave Little State, about what it’s like to live in the Northeast Kingdom . I was at Caplan's Army Store in St. Johnsbury, where I used to buy all my socks and which sadly now is closed, and I asked them who they thought I should talk with, and the collective response was, "Carl." I asked how to find him, and they said, "Go about seven miles down this road then there’s a road that kind of goes up to a Jersey farm on the left and then there’s a pond. But there's no sign to the pond. So after the pond, drive past the pull-off and Carl's trailer sits way up in a field at the top of that hill. There’s a lot of pipes. And a lot of cars and trucks. And a lot of hounds."

Carl’s trailer looks out over the farm he ran for mos

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