https://www.beartrapcrematory.com/obituaries/ray-allen
I'm posting this obituary about a town icon that died this week. I didn't even know him very well but many, many people in the Islands knew him, as well as his father, and his great-grandfather, and his son... etc etc. Let's just say Ethan Allen wasn't the only Allen in Vermont.
I have no reason to believe anyone reading this will care, but this man was exemplary in many ways as you will see in the obituary. By the time we moved up here, we only knew him as an old man who owned a family business that we frequented often to buy apples and Thanksgiving pies. Also, he had a donkey that the grandkids loved.
I'm touched by this obituary because a) he was really an awesome human being and b) because there are so many like him across the small towns in America... people you never hear of. I'm posting Ray's obituary to honor them as well.
I'm a huge fan of Wendell Berry, another farmer, who talks about how we've lost our sense of place in America. We've lost the threads that tie us to our communities, and we've lost the meaning that being a strong part of a community, however small, can bring.
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