Publisher’s Note: The Vermont Independent spoke with Harper’s magazine writer Robert Sullivan last summer about the acclaimed Broadway smash hit “Hamilton: The Musical.” Below,  find our comments from his feature article in the October 2016 issue of Harper’s. We published Paul Street’s brilliant critique of the Hamilton musical a few weeks back. Take a look.

Free Vermont, and long live the UNtied States!

“Geography matters in other ways, too. Vermont, a strategic north–south passageway between the United States and Canada, had to be handled with kid gloves by Hamilton, who negotiated its peaceful entry into the fledgling nation in 1791. The secessionist impulse — what its proponents call Vexit — has never entirely disappeared from the Green Mountain State. I spoke with one of them, Rob Williams, a historian and the publisher of the Vermont Independent, who saw Hamilton last year. “Oh, I loved it,” he said. “I thought it was tremendous propaganda.””