7/4/08: Thousands of people stormed the small town of Warren Friday for their 60th Annual 4th of July Parade.

Everyone was there, a camera-wielding Bush, candidates for governor, aBummer of a Hummer, gigantic puppets, tractors and characters a plenty.

Rural Vermont is not as quiet as you may think.  Boiling in thebackwoods are activists fighting for political change, energyindependence and the POWER of green.

Music:
Line in the Sand – Compilation by Wyld Stallions Records

d_Cyphernauts, “You Got Your War”

Son of Nun, “Right On”

Location: Main St, Warren, Vermont

This article appears in Jul 9-15, 2008.

Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger has been making her award-winning video series "Stuck in Vermont" since 2007. In 2024, she won first place from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for her video, “Barbie Collector.” She received the Margaret L. (Peggy) Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy from the Vermont Arts Council in 2023. This map details her travels around the state; her 500th video was a musical. New episodes appear on the Seven Days website every other Thursday...