The book explores such topics as the little known connection between Glastenbury and the psychiatrists Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. The murder in 1897 of deer hunter John Harbour remains unresolved to this day. In the 1930s, declining population and political machinations led to the state legislature’s disincorporation of the town, an act unique in the state. It also stirred considerable controversy over where the line would be drawn in the future; when is a town no longer viable? Twenty residents? Forty? Sixty?

The Glastenbury book joins the author’s histories of Shaftsbury, Dorset and the Shires of Bennington, as well as the Bennington Battle Monument and the Putnam Hospital. Resch has also written a bicentennial history of the Rutland Herald, and edited an anthology of 50 years of the political editorials of Robert Mitchell, the late publisher of the Rutland Herald.

Resch, a former editor of The Bennington Banner and director of communications at Bennington College, is currently director of the library at the Bennington Museum.