People relate to this whole larger issue, that this whole way of life is in trouble now. Obviously these issues are happening in small towns all over, including Vermont.

There are some hopeful signs. It's just not a given that it's going to be the way that it was.

I was always interested in the family aspect of that, the character aspect of that. It was a look at the internal pressures rather than the external.

Many people, blacks as well as whites, have some trouble having the story of slavery told in a major public venue, ... But we do not have the right not to tell the story.

Right now, I need five people and I'm having trouble finding them. That's the biggest problem I find here.

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.