Then Again: A journey among ‘deists & proper heathen’

A 1798 painting by Ralph Earl depicts Bennington. Connecticut minister Nathan Perkins visited Bennington and other towns on the west side of Vermont during a tour in 1789. Wikimedia Commons image(“Then Again” is Mark Bushnell’s column about Vermont history.)
Nathan Perkins dreaded this mission. It would take him far from his comfortable home and into what he feared was a dangerous and untamed land. But as an evangelical minister, Perkins believed he had no choice. It was his du