Then Again: Barnard farm lured famous couple, but couldn’t bind them

Writer Lewis Sinclair and journalist Dorothy Thompson, shown circa 1938, spent their summers at their large homestead in Barnard, now an inn called Twin Farms. Photo courtesy of University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries(“Then Again” is Mark Bushnell’s column about Vermont history.)
Sinclair Lewis proposed to Dorothy Thompson in Germany, but wooed her with talk of Vermont.
He popped the question – and spoke of the wondrous house they could buy in the Vermont countrysid