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Sunday, February 4, 2007
More Recognition
Posted
By Peter Freyne
on Sun, Feb 4, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Ah, made it to another Super Bowl Sunday!
Lost count.
And we're starting to lose count of the kudos coming in for Chris Graff's Vermont political gem - "Dateline Vermont."
The latest is from Roll Call.
Here are some exerpts from the review.
Vermont January 30, 2007 When Graff first arrived to the state he was 11 years old. In his small rural community, Graff learned how Vermonters marked the "first sap run, the day the ice went out on the pond, the day the bluebirds returned to the house ... the day the phoebes arrived to build their nest above the kitchen stoop." Vermonters took pride in their rural and very Republican roots, Graff observed, but as a new interstate brought tourism and industry to the area, there was no stopping a change in politics. By the time Graff became a journalist, he was faced with the challenge of how to cover a state in transformation. "Half of this job I loved was to spot the change, document it and analyze it," Graff writes. "The other half was to keep an eye on Vermont's At the time, Graff already knew his career as a journalist was coming to an end. He writes that it was as if "an essential part of him had been ripped away." But the conviction of the four Vermont politicians was, if anything, a sign "In the course of my career, I don't think anyone knew what my politics was," Graff said. "Whether it was Dean or Jeffords, or Sanders . ... I think politicians in Graff quips in his book that if his firing could "bring together a socialist, a Democrat, a Republican and an independent, then perhaps it was for the good." Graff now works as the vice president of communications for the National Life Group in He currently is promoting his book and is unsure whether another one is in his future — though he has plenty of material left. And while his departure from the AP was both shocking and painful, Graff writes that he wouldn't have changed anything but the ending. Amen.Scenes From
By Marnette Federis,
Roll Call Staff
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About The Author
Peter Freyne
Bio:
Peter Freyne, 1949-2009, wrote the weekly political column "Inside Track," which originated in the Vanguard Press in the mid 1980s; he brought it to Seven Days in 1995. He retired it shortly before his death in January, 2009. We all miss him.
Peter Freyne, 1949-2009, wrote the weekly political column "Inside Track," which originated in the Vanguard Press in the mid 1980s; he brought it to Seven Days in 1995. He retired it shortly before his death in January, 2009. We all miss him.
