John Klar: Values — not birthplace — define a Vermonter

Editor’s note: This commentary is by John Klar, a Vermont grass-fed beef farmer, and an attorney and pastor who lives in Westfield.
On the walls of the combination Subway/Mobil station in Randolph are black-and-white photos of area farms from the early 1900s. One of them, a classic dairy farm on a ridiculously steep hillside in Barnet, is where I bought my first Percheron mare some 20 years ago. The spartan subsistence of old Vermont reflected in that display of photos contrasts dramatical