Just published: A Guide to the Battle of Bennington and the Battle Monument, 2nd ed., nine years after my first attempt, which was successful enough in the marketplace to sell out. The front cover is (almost) the same, and the back cover now bears a blurb from Peter Gilbert, retired Director of Vermont Humanities.

The first edition was 56 pages; this one is 80. Some of the new material comes in the form of photographs that I’ve been taking over the past 9 years, and re-enactment photos provided by Peter Schaaphok of the Friends of the Bennington Battlefield, and a dramatic drone shot of a maintenance technician rappelling down the exterior of the Monument, provided by Vermont’s Division of Historic Preservation. There are new works of art, too, including a painting of the Battle by Jacob Lawrence, and Grandma Moses’s’ “Black Horses,” which she related to the death of one of her ancestors’ black horses at the Battle. Also new: sections on Molly Stark, on women at the Battle, on Black Patriots at the Battle, on rum, the official drink (per General Stark) of the Battle.

Once again I have had the benefit of the superb skills of graphic designer Leslie Noyes of Bennington. I don’t sell on Amazon, only in Vermont bookstores and shops. If you’re at a distance, you can order online from the Bennington Bookshop or Manchester’s Northshire Bookstore.