Tag: Barnard

Barnard /ˈbɑrnərd/ is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 958 at the 2000 census.
The town was chartered on July 17, 1761 by a New Hampshire Grant and named after the second-listed grantee of the town (as well as five others) Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet and since 1760 Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The town’s name was changed to Barnard some time before 1810. Obviously people meanwhile preferred their town not to be associated with a representative of the British crown and rigid enforcer of her policies.
In 1928, Nobel Prize winning novelist Sinclair Lewis bought Connett Place with a total 300 acres (1.2 km) and adjacent Chase Farm. He named the property Twin Farms and used it as a vacation house during the 1930s and 1940s with his wife Dorothy Thompson.
In 1941, German playwright Carl Zuckmayer, a refugee from Nazi Germany whom Dorothy Thompson had helped to get into the US, rented Backwoods Farm, with its farmhouse from 1783…