VPR’s Jane Lindholm disucsses the polygamous
Latter Day Saints sect in Texas and Vermont’s
1984 raid on a religious community in Island Pond with Jean Swantko-Wiseman, a former Northeast Kingdom
Public Defender, Jack
Hoffman, who reported on the Island Pond Raid and its aftermath and Peter
Teachout who teaches Constitutional Law at Vermont
Law School.
Next
Tuesday, voters in the Northeast Kingdom town of Brighton and its
village of Island Pond will decide whether or not to re-elect a
constable that’s been a
lightening rod for almost a quarter century. VPR’s Charlotte Albright
has been
following the campaign and has this report.