About this ebook
Vermont’s response to the pandemic was widely recognized, and realizing the historic significance of the outbreak, the Vermont Historical Society launched a project to document its impact. By collecting more than a hundred oral histories from state officials, doctors, and citizens, the project captured the consequences and influence the pandemic had on the Green Mountain State.
Life Became Very Blurry: An Oral History of Covid-19 in Vermont builds on that project. Edited by bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Garrett M. Graff, it compiles those oral histories into a comprehensive narrative of the pandemic in Vermont from the first lockdowns in March 2020 through the tumultuous years that followed.
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About the author
Garrett M. Graff has spent two decades covering politics, technology, and national security. Today, he’s a columnist for the Washington Post, serves as the director of cyber initiatives at the Aspen Institute, and hosts the history podcast Long Shadow, which received a 2024 Edward R. Murrow Award. The former editor of POLITICO magazine and a longtime contributor to WIRED and CNN, he’s written for publications like Esquire, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and Foreign Affairs, and authored nine books—including the #1 national bestseller The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 and the award-winning When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day. His New York Times bestseller Watergate: A New History was a finalist in 2023 for the Pulitzer Prize for History. The third generation of Vermont writers in his family, Graff graduated from Montpelier High School, was married in Barnard, and now lives in Burlington.
