02-07-2017 20:21 via vtdigger.org

Song aims to shed light on today’s ‘huddled masses’

BRATTLEBORO — Back in January, as President Donald Trump’s travel ban was drawing the first of many questions from immigration attorneys and activists, Vermont artist Peter Gould was wondering about something else.
“What are the full words,” he recalls thinking, “to that poem on the Statue of Liberty?”
Gould looked up the late Emma Lazarus’ 1883 sonnet “The New Colossus” and its concluding statement, “Send these, the homeless, tempest-
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