Even so, enlightened Vermont has its bad actors. Fortunately we have “Umbrella,” an organization here in northeastern Vermont that shelters battered women and their children, and helps women find affordable childcare.


It’s still a crying shame that we have so many doofusses passing and proposing legislation here in the U.S.A. harming one of our greatest assets – the women in our lives. I hope that the courts, just plain common sense or a new administration can correct what has gone so terribly wrong in parts of our country.


Jim Barhydt and his wife Fran live in a cape in The White Village in Lower Water- ford, Vermont. Jim grew up in Toronto. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in Septem- ber 1946 at age 17 to avoid the U.S. military draft and be eligible for the G.I. Bill, which later paid his way to a Masters of Arts from Columbia University.


May 2012


39 Kalon Women Magazine


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