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93-501: Arthur Kent was born on December 3, 1873, in Burlington, Vermont . The Kent family moved to Worcester, Massachusetts in 1881, where they lived at four different locations. His father was a doctor who had also been a machinist. The father maintained a machine shop in Worcester when Arthur was a child. Kent entered Worcester Polytechnic Institute ’s freshman mechanical engineering class in

186-541: A 1970 letter to her stepfather, Highsmith described sex with men as like "steel wool in the face, a sensation of being raped in the wrong place—leading to a sensation of having to have, pretty soon, a boewl [ sic ] movement." Phyllis Nagy described Highsmith as "a lesbian who did not very much enjoy being around other women" and her few affairs with men occurred just to "see if she could be into men in that way because she so much more preferred their company." Highsmith called herself "basically polygamous" and

279-545: A Civil War fraternal group in Burlington. Nine days later, he became U.S. president when President McKinley died. In 1870, the waterfront was extended by construction of the Pine Street Barge Canal. This became polluted over the years and was a focus for cleanup in 2009 under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 's Superfund program. In fact, the entire Burlington waterfront was a derelict wasteland as late as

372-678: A Summer Idyll , was rejected by Knopf (her most recent American publisher) several months before her death. It was published posthumously in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing in March 1995, and nine years later in the United States by W. W. Norton . The novel sold 50,000 copies in France within six weeks of her death. Highsmith's literary estate included eight thousand pages of handwritten notebooks and diaries. Highsmith had anorexia as

465-588: A community boathouse to anchor public redevelopment at the waterfront. The land filled into the harbor was eventually redesigned for public use in a decision of the Vermont Supreme Court in 1989. By 1990 the Burlington Bike Path was complete, from Oakledge Park in the south, to the Winooski River in the north. In 2004, Governor Howard Dean obtained funding for construction of a bike bridge across

558-505: A four-block pedestrian mall in the heart of the city, is the site of festivals throughout the year. Events such as the "South End Art Hop" and public galleries such as Pine Street Art Works , provide a forum for the visual arts in the South End. A "Festival of Fools" had an estimated 25,000 attendees at the Marketplace in 2009. The "Vermont Brewers Festival" had 9,600 attendees in 2009, and

651-845: A house in Aurigeno , Switzerland and in 1982 moved there permanently. In 1981, Highsmith moved into her Swiss home and began writing a new novel, People who Knock on the Door (1983), about the influence of Christian fundamentalism in America. This, and her following novel, Found in the Street (1986) , were partly based on a research trip to America in early 1981. Her biographer Joan Schenkar states that by this time Highsmith had been living in Europe so long she "began to make errors of American fact and understanding in her novels." Highsmith described People who Knock on

744-619: A job at publications such as Harper's Bazaar , Vogue , Mademoiselle , Good Housekeeping , Time , Fortune , and The New Yorker . She eventually found work with FFF Publishers which provided copy for various Jewish publications. The job, which paid $ 20 per week, lasted only six months but gave her experience in researching stories. In December 1942 Highsmith found employment with comic book publisher Sangor – Pines where she earned up to $ 50 per week. She wrote "Sergeant Bill King" stories, contributed to Black Terror and Fighting Yank comics, and wrote profiles such as Catherine

837-558: A loner who guarded her privacy but she formed a life-long friendship with fellow student Kate Kingsley Skattebol. She continued to read voraciously, kept diaries and notebooks, and developed an interest in eastern philosophy , Marx and Freud . She also read Thomas Wolfe , Marcel Proust and Julien Green with admiration. She published nine stories in the college literary magazine and became its editor in her senior year. After graduating in 1942, Highsmith, despite endorsements from "highly placed professionals," applied without success for

930-799: A long-term association with the publication. She also completed two further novels, Deep Water (published in 1957) and A Game for the Living (1958), and a children's book, Miranda the Panda is on the Veranda (1958), that she co-authored with Doris Sanders. In December 1958, Highsmith moved back to Manhattan where she wrote This Sweet Sickness . The novel was published in February 1960 to generally favorable reviews. From September 1960, she lived near New Hope , Pennsylvania. There she saw René Clement's Plein Soleil (1960),

1023-614: A loose adaptation of Ripley's Game. She praised the film but was displeased with Dennis Hopper as Ripley. The following year, she was elected chairman of the jury for the Berlin Film Festival . In 1980 Highsmith underwent bypass surgery to correct uncontrolled bleeding and serious cardiovascular problems. Soon after, the French authorities fined her for taxation irregularities, prompting her to comment, "How appropriate, to be bleeding in two places." Disillusioned with France, she bought

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1116-537: A novel about a lesbian relationship. Strangers on a Train was published in March 1950 and received favorable reviews in The New Yorker , New York Herald Tribune and New York Times. The novel was shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe Prize and Alfred Hitchcock secured the film rights for $ 6,000. Sales increased after the release of the film. In February 1951, she left for Europe for the publication of

1209-486: A personality disorder. A psychiatrist who observed her at a hotel in 1963 said to the owner, "You do realize you have a psychopath in the hall." Many who knew her said she could also be funny and good company, but difficult. Her oldest friend, Kate Skattebol, said that at college she was "fun to be with and her sense of humour was great. She loved to shock people." British journalist Francis Wyndham, who met her in 1963, said, "I liked her immediately...I could tell that she

1302-628: A psychopath. The novel went on to win the Edgar Allan Poe Scroll of the Mystery Writers of America. Highsmith biographer Richard Bradford states that the novel "forged the basis for her long term reputation as a writer." Highsmith moved to the affluent hamlet of Palisades , New York State, in 1956 and lived there for over two years. In March 1957, her story "A Perfect Alibi" was published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine , beginning

1395-629: A single storm is 33.1 inches (84.1 cm), which fell January 2–3, 2010. For the Northeastern United States, a heat wave is defined as having three consecutive days of 90 °F (32 °C) or more. There were six such heat waves from 2000–2009. According to the 2020 United States census , there were 44,743 people living in Burlington. The racial makeup of the city was 85.6% White , 4.4% Black or African American , 0.4% American Indian , 4.6% Asian , and 4.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino origin made up 3.8% of

1488-407: A story about a pyromaniac nanny that she had written in 1941, was published by Harper's Bazaar . The publishers Knopf wrote her that they were interested in publishing any novels she might have. Nothing, however, came from their subsequent meeting. Highsmith's agents advised her that her stories needed to be more "upbeat" to be marketable but she wanted to write stories that reflected her vision of

1581-525: A strain on resources. About 500 soldiers died of disease, which was always a problem due to poor sanitation in army camps. Some soldiers were quartered in the main building at the University of Vermont , where a memorial plaque commemorates them. In a skirmish on August 2, 1813, British forces from Canada shelled Burlington. This is described as either a bold stroke by the British with an ineffectual response from

1674-737: A teenager and episodes of depression throughout her life. Despite literary success, she wrote in her diary of January 1970: "[I] am now cynical, fairly rich ... lonely, depressed, and totally pessimistic." She was an alcoholic who by her middle age drank from breakfast until she went to bed at night. She smoked 40 Gauloises cigarettes a day and rarely ate fruit and vegetables. In 1973 her doctor advised her that if she did not change her lifestyle she might not live past 55. Highsmith underwent surgery in May 1980 for blockages in two arteries of her right leg, and in April 1986 she had successful surgery for lung cancer (of

1767-468: A type not related to smoking). In January 1992 she had a procedure to widen her left femoral artery, and in September the following year she had surgery to remove a non-cancerous tumor in her lower intestine. Later in 1993 she was diagnosed with the aplastic anemia and lung cancer that would kill her. To all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real,

1860-542: A worldwide market and is based in neighboring South Burlington. Vermont Teddy Bear Company , whose founder started on a cart on a Burlington street, now ships custom teddy bears worldwide and is based in nearby Shelburne . Corporate headquarters located in Burlington include Burton Snowboards , Bruegger's , Lake Champlain Chocolates, Rhino Foods , and Seventh Generation Inc. In 2017 , Burlington had $ 591.7 million in retail sales . The Church Street Marketplace ,

1953-511: A year. She called this the "saddest year" of her life and felt "abandoned" by her mother. In 1934 she returned to New York to live with her mother and stepfather in Greenwich Village , Manhattan. She was unhappy at home. She hated her step father and developed a life-long love–hate relationship with her mother, which she later fictionalized in stories such as " The Terrapin ", about a young boy who stabs his mother to death. She attended

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2046-580: Is also a community center, a cultural resource for newly arrived immigrants to the Burlington area, and the city's only free public access computer center. Many of Burlington's historic buildings and sites have been recognized by their inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). In addition to 28 buildings, three shipwrecks and the Burlington Breakwater, the city encompasses 17 historic districts. Churches in Burlington include

2139-490: Is an annual event presented by the South End Arts and Business Association. Artists join businesses, artist studios, and galleries, which in turn open their doors to the public throughout the post-industrial section of Burlington, known as the "South End". The first Art Hop in 1993 had a little more than thirty artists and a dozen sites participating. In 2008, over 600 artists showcased their works in over 100 sites throughout

2232-527: Is located 45 miles (72 km) south of the Canada–United States border and 95 miles (153 km) south of Montreal . As of the 2020 U.S. census , the population was 44,743. It is the least populous city in the 50 U.S. states to be the most populous city in its state . A regional college town , Burlington is home to the University of Vermont (UVM) and Champlain College . Vermont's largest hospital,

2325-547: Is well-distributed throughout the year, but the summer months are the wettest. The city's location east of Lake Champlain sometimes accounts for localized snow squalls , producing up to 13 inches (33 cm) in 12 hours on rare occasions. Annual snowfall averages 86 inches (218 cm), but this figure can fluctuate greatly from one year to another. Temperature extremes have ranged from −30 °F (−34 °C) on January 15, 1957, and February 12, 1979, to 101 °F (38 °C) on August 11, 1944. The most recorded snowfall from

2418-471: Is what we do in bed." In 1970 she wrote to a friend: "We all become reconciled to being queer and prefer life that way." Highsmith refused to speak publicly about her sexuality, repeatedly telling interviewers: “I don’t answer personal questions about myself or other people.” When she finally agreed, in 1990, to have The Price of Salt republished under her own name as Carol she was still reluctant to discuss her sexuality. In 1978, however, she wrote

2511-909: The Champlain Canal in 1823, the Erie Canal in 1825, and the Chambly Canal in 1843. Wharves allowed steamboats to connect freight and passengers with the Rutland & Burlington Railroad and the Vermont Central Railroad . Burlington became a bustling lumbering and manufacturing center – for some time the third largest lumber market in the world – and was incorporated as a city in 1865. Its Victorian-era prosperity left behind much fine architecture, including buildings by Ammi B. Young , H.H. Richardson , and McKim, Mead & White . On September 5, 1901, U.S. vice president Theodore Roosevelt spoke to

2604-547: The UVM Medical Center , is within the city limits. The City of Burlington owns Vermont's largest airport, the Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport , located in neighboring South Burlington . In 2015, Burlington became the first city in the U.S. to run entirely on renewable energy . Two theories have been put forward regarding the origin of Burlington's name. The first is that it

2697-515: The crime of apartheid . The American Jewish Committee condemned the resolution as "deceptive and one-sided" and criticized it for its sole focus on Israel. A coalition of local rabbis and community groups condemned the resolution as well, citing the timing of the vote during the Jewish High Holy Days , between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur , and fears that the resolution would fuel antisemitism . Former mayor Miro Weinberger called

2790-592: The "Giant Pumpkin Regatta and Festival" had 5,000 attendees that same year; Saturday Night Live satirized the event. One of the largest year-round farmers' markets in the state of Vermont is located in the city. Dragon boat races to benefit charity have been held in Lake Champlain in August since 2006. In 2009, there were approximately 2,000 participants on 86 teams. An annual First Night community celebration of

2883-561: The 1960s, as often eccentric, rude, difficult and antisocial. She brought her pet snails to one dinner party in the 1960s and let them wander over the mahogany. At a dinner party in 1968 she deliberately lowered her head to a candle and set her hair on fire. She had two friends as house guests in 1971 and threw a dead rat into their room. She often made racist or insensitive comments which offended and embarrassed those present. Those who knew her suggested that this behavior might have resulted from depression, alcoholism, Asperger's Syndrome or

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2976-526: The Americans or as a weak sally by the British, which was rightly ignored by the Americans. The cannonade lasted about 10 minutes and caused no casualties. The American troops involved were commanded by Naval Lieutenant Thomas Macdonough , later a hero of the Battle of Lake Champlain . The town's position on Lake Champlain helped it develop into a port of entry and center for trade, particularly after completion of

3069-774: The College Street Congregational Church ( United Church of Christ ), The Burlington Church of Christ, and the non-denominational Church at the Well. The Conservative Ohavi Zedek synagogue is also located in the city, and there is an active Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Synagogues in Burlington include the Chabad of Vermont, Ohavi Zedek, Ahavath Gerim, Ruach HaMaqom, and Ohavi Zedek Chavurah. The Howard Mortuary Chapel in Lakeview Cemetery

3162-457: The Door as "a flat book, but popular in France, Germany and E[ast] Germany." In 1986, Highsmith had a successful operation for lung cancer. Shortly after, she commissioned a new home in Tegna , Switzerland. The home was in the brutalist style and her friends called it "the bunker." There she completed her last two novels, Ripley Under Water (1991) and Small g: A Summer Idyll (1995). In 1990 she

3255-471: The French film adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, but she was disappointed by its moralistic ending. She also wrote The Cry of the Owl which she completed in February 1962. Although Highsmith considered it one of her worst novels, novelist Brigid Brophy later rated it, along with Lolita , as one of the best since World War II. Highsmith spent 1962 shuttling between New Hope and Europe and finishing

3348-753: The Great , Barney Ross , and Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker for the "Real Life Comics" series. After a year, she realized she could make more money and have more flexibility for travel and serious writing by working freelance for comics and she did so until 1949. From 1943 to 1946, under editor Vincent Fago at Timely Comics , she contributed to its U.S.A. Comics wartime series, writing scenarios for characters such as "Jap Buster Johnson" and The Destroyer . For Fawcett Publications she scripted characters including "Crisco and Jasper." She also wrote for True Comics , Captain Midnight and Western Comics . Working for comics

3441-456: The Heart, where patients have access to art supplies and devoted volunteer time. The Fletcher Free Library was established in 1873, endowed by Mary Martha Fletcher , the daughter of a local businessman, but outgrew its initial building on Church Street by 1901. A new building was constructed in 1901–04 with funds provided by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie , making it the first of

3534-895: The North Avenue Alliance Church, First Baptist Church, First Congregational Church, the Episcopal Cathedral Church of St. Paul , the First United Methodist Church, Christ Church ( Presbyterian ), the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Joseph —the episcopal see for the Diocese of Burlington , the First Unitarian Universalist Society, Dormition of the Mother of God Orthodox Church ( Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America ),

3627-549: The Red Lion and Pooley furniture companies. Some models looked more like furniture than radios, and others had multiple functions, like the radio housed inside a grandfather clock. The onset of the Great Depression led to greatly diminished demand for Atwater Kent's expensive radio sets. The company adjusted to consumer demands by building smaller, tabletop radio sets, but Kent was not one to compromise on quality. A drop in demand

3720-448: The South End of Burlington. The event takes place on the Friday and Saturday following Labor Day in September. The city has an art department, Burlington City Arts, which serves many roles including cultural planning, education, showing contemporary art and hosting cultural events at The BCA Center . Burlington City Arts also runs a program in collaboration with UVM Medical Center, Art from

3813-540: The Winooski River, allowing the bike path to be extended four miles out into the lake on the old railroad causeway to the Champlain Islands, now known as the Island Line Trail. In 1978, the ice cream enterprise Ben & Jerry's was founded in Burlington in a renovated gas station. It became a national brand, with retail outlets in numerous cities. The local bicycle advocacy that emerged from this effort led to

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3906-559: The age of nine, she became fascinated by the case histories of abnormal psychology in The Human Mind by Karl Menninger , a popularizer of Freudian analysis. In the summer of 1933, Highsmith attended a girls' camp and the letters she wrote home were published as a story two years later in Woman's World magazine. She received $ 25 for the story. After returning from camp, she was sent to Fort Worth and lived with her maternal grandmother for

3999-441: The all-girl Julian Richman High School where she achieved a B minus average grade. She continued to read widely— Edgar Allan Poe was a favorite—and began writing short stories and a journal. Her story "Primroses are Pink" was published in the school literary magazine. In 1938 Highsmith entered Barnard College where her studies included English literature, playwriting and short story composition. Fellow students considered her

4092-622: The army of memories, with which I do battle—may they never give me peace. – Patricia Highsmith, "My New Year's Toast", journal entry, 1947 Highsmith was ambitious and socially active in the 1940s but always preferred smaller gatherings to large crowds and public functions. Despite her reputation as a recluse in her later years, she had a circle of friends, neighbors and admirers who she regularly saw in France and Switzerland, and she frequently corresponded with friends in Europe and America. Highsmith's biographers, friends and acquaintances describe her public and private behavior, especially from

4185-575: The arts on New Year's Eve was founded in 1983 with funding from the National Endowment on the Arts and Vermont Council on the Arts. It ran for 35 years before shutting down in 2018. Drag troupe, the House of LeMay , hosts the annual "Winter is a Drag Ball" which raises funds for HIV/AIDS-related organizations. The Emily Post Institute , an etiquette organization, is headquartered here. The city has, over

4278-607: The breakdown of her relationship with a married Englishwoman, she moved to France in 1967 to try to rebuild her life. Her sales were now higher in Europe than in the United States which her agent attributed to her subversion of the conventions of American crime fiction. She moved to Switzerland in 1982 where she continued to publish new work that increasingly divided critics. The last years of her life were marked by ill health and she died of aplastic anemia and lung cancer in Switzerland in 1995. The Times said of Highsmith: "she puts

4371-694: The city council to "express its solidarity with the Palestinian people, condemn anti-boycott legislation, and endorse the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which calls for nonviolent pressure on Israel." The authors' stated reasons for introducing the resolution were Israeli settlements in the West Bank, an ongoing "military siege and an economic blockade" of Gaza , and US military aid to Israel. They also cited reports by Human Rights Watch and B'Tselem that find Israel guilty of

4464-460: The city's bond credit rating at Aa3, "high" quality. The largest employers in the city, and the state overall, are the University of Vermont Medical Center and the University of Vermont , employing over 8,200 and 4,125 people, respectively. Other companies in Burlington include Blodgett Ovens, one of the oldest and largest commercial oven companies in the country, which manufactures restaurant equipment. General Electric develops software for

4557-626: The company moved to a new $ 2 million plant at 4745 Wissahickon Avenue in North Philadelphia . This plant, constructed in sections, would eventually cover 32 acres (13 ha). In 1925, the Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company became the largest maker of radios in the United States. The company also sponsored the popular The Atwater Kent Hour , a top-rated radio concert music program heard on NBC and CBS from 1926 to 1934. The show featured top entertainment and became one of

4650-630: The country in her bra. Schenkar, however, believes this is only an amusing story and that she smuggled her snails in cottage cheese cartons. Her other hobbies included woodworking, painting and gardening. Diogenes Verlag published a book of her drawings in 1995. She was an accomplished gardener, but in her later years her friends and neighbors did most of the work on her gardens. Highsmith's sexual relationships were predominantly with women. She occasionally engaged in sex with men without physical desire for them, writing in her diary in 1948: "The male face doesn't attract me, isn't beautiful to me." In

4743-605: The crime story literature. Julian Simmons in The Sunday Times commended Highsmith's subtle characterization. The novel won the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers' Association for best foreign novel of 1964. Highsmith was quarreling with her mother and under severe emotional strain due to her difficult relationship with her English lover. She was drinking heavily and her private and public behavior

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4836-455: The do-it-yourself kits consisting of "breadboards" that could be assembled by early radio enthusiasts. The same year, he introduced the Model 5 , primarily as a promotional tool. In 1923, his firm started producing complete radio sets, using a facility on Stenton Avenue, introducing the Model 10 for Christmas that year. This was followed by the Model 9 "and a broad line of breadboard sets". In 1924,

4929-462: The fall of 1895. He was elected treasurer of the class of 1899, but only remained in the position for one semester, because he did not attend recitation classes after the mid-year exams in January. Kent excelled in mechanics and drawing, but was weak in chemistry, algebra, and language, and had no interest in these subjects. He was already running a small business and that was his top priority. His business

5022-602: The festival town of Aldeburgh , Suffolk, and the following year she bought a home in the nearby village of Earl Soham where she lived for three years. During this time, Highsmith's critical reputation in the United Kingdom grew. Francis Wyndham wrote a long article on Highsmith for the New Statesman in 1963 which introduced her work to many readers. Brigid Brophy, also writing in the New Statesman , praised The Two Faces of January (1964) stating that Highsmith had made

5115-637: The firm produced. Kent dissolved his design engineering facility in 1931, and shuttered his radio factory in 1936. A major local competitor, Philco , acquired the closed plant and built its refrigerators there. In 1937, Kent helped to organize and pay for the restoration of the Betsy Ross House in Center City Philadelphia . In 1938, Kent helped found the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia , Philadelphia's city history museum, by purchasing

5208-472: The formation of the non-profit Local Motion. They now run a bike ferry during the summer to get bicycles across a 200 yard gap in the railroad causeway, so they can get all the way out to the Lake Champlain islands. In 2021, following the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis , the city council scheduled a vote on a "Resolution In Solidarity with the Palestinian People" for September 13. The resolution called on

5301-401: The four Carnegie libraries in Vermont. It was designed in the Beaux-Arts style by Walter R. B. Willcox of Burlington, who won a competition to receive the commission. The building had major settling problems in 1973 where it had been built over a former railroad ravine, which had been improperly filled in, and the library's collection was moved elsewhere. The possible razing of the building

5394-510: The healthcare industry in South Burlington at the former headquarters of IDX Systems , which it purchased in 2006. General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products division employ 450 workers locally. A solely owned subsidiary, the division is based here. Dealer.com, a leading automotive internet marketing company, employs over 700 people. Ben & Jerry's began in 1978 when Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield opened their first ice cream scoop shop in an old gas station in Burlington and now has

5487-453: The mid-1980s, with rail yards, industrial uses and 90 oil storage tanks crowding the 60 acres of shoreline filled into the harbor during the lumbering era. In 1980 two 18 story luxury condominium towers were proposed for the waterfront, just north of College Street. Opposition to that proposal led to the formation of the Citizens Waterfront Group to advocate for a bike path along the shore instead. In 1987 former Mayor Bernie Sanders proposed

5580-662: The most popular and acclaimed regular radio programs of the era. At its peak in 1929, the company employed over 12,000 workers manufacturing nearly one million radio sets. Its models included the metal-cabinet seven-tube Model 57 at US$ 105 and the wooden-cabinet eight-tube Model 60 at US$ 80. The plant itself was an architectural sensation and received hundreds of visitors annually. By 1931, the company boasted that it had produced over three million radios. Atwater Kent radios were of high quality and many examples of working models exist today; they are highly prized by collectors and restorers. Their wooden cabinets were made for Atwater Kent by

5673-653: The mouth of the Winooski River along the lake shore, and rises from the water's edge to a height of 300 feet (91 m). A large ravine in what is now downtown was filled in with refuse and raw sewage in the 19th century to make way for further development. Burlington is characterized by its neighborhoods, which are generally recognized as follows: Burlington has a hot-summer humid continental climate ( Köppen Dfa ), with cold winters and humid summers. The monthly daily average temperatures range from 21 °F (−6.1 °C) in January to 72 °F (22.2 °C) in July. The annual precipitation of 43 inches (1,092 mm)

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5766-404: The novel The Two Faces of January . She had fallen in love with a married English woman and wanted to live closer to her. In February 1963, she moved permanently to Europe. Highsmith rented an apartment in Positano where she worked on her prison novel The Glass Cell. She then traveled to London where she promoted The Cry of the Owl , newly published in Britain. In November 1963 she moved to

5859-413: The novel in England and France. She stayed for two years, traveling and working on an unfinished novel, "The Traffic of Jacob's Ladder," which is now lost. She wrote Skattebol, "I can imagine living mostly in Europe the rest of my life." Highsmith was back in New York in May 1953. The Price of Salt had been published in hardback under a pseudonym the previous May, and sold well in paperback in 1953. It

5952-506: The novel. Strangers on a Train was accepted for publication by Harper & Brothers in May 1949. The following month, Highsmith sailed to Europe where she spent three months in England, France and Italy. In Italy, she visited Positano which would later become the major setting for her novel The Talented Mr. Ripley . She read an anthology of Kierkegaard on the trip and declared him her new "master". Highsmith returned to New York in October 1949 and began writing The Price of Salt ,

6045-442: The original home of the Franklin Institute on South 7th Street and donating it to the City of Philadelphia. His daughter, Virginia Tucker Kent (April 17, 1915–April 29, 1966) married and divorced Cummins Catherwood , and inspired Patricia Highsmith , resulting in the novel The Price of Salt . Atwater Kent died on March 4, 1949, in Hollywood, California . He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale , California. He

6138-403: The population was below the poverty threshold . The median value of owner-occupied housing units was $ 338,100. Burlington's economy centers on education, health services, trade, transportation, and utilities, and some manufacturing. In February 2023 , the city had an unemployment rate of 2.1%. Mean annual wages were $ 63,180 in 2022 ; the state was $ 59,190. As of 2019 , Moody's set

6231-406: The population. There were 17,174 households and the average number of persons per household was 2.16. According to the American Community Survey for 2017–2021, the median income for a household in the city was $ 59,331. Among workers with full-time, year-round work, males had a median income of $ 50,552 versus $ 38,418 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 34,054. About 23.8% of

6324-508: The posthumous availability of her diaries and notebooks in which she recorded the motivations of her behavior. Highsmith began keeping snails as pets in 1946 or 1949 as she was fascinated by their sexuality. Pet snails appear in her 1957 novel Deep Water, and her story "The Snail Watcher" is about pet snails who kill their owner. She kept 300 snails at her home in Earl Soham and occasionally took some with her on social outings. She said that when she moved to France she smuggled her snails into

6417-431: The promise of any future royalties, to the Yaddo colony, where she spent two months in 1948 writing the draft of Strangers on a Train . Highsmith bequeathed her literary estate to the Swiss Literary Archives at the Swiss National Library in Bern, Switzerland. Her Swiss publisher, Diogenes Verlag , which had principal rights to her work, was appointed literary executor of the estate. Her last novel, Small g:

6510-399: The publication of her first novel Strangers on a Train (1950) which was adapted into a 1951 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock . Her 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley was well received in the United States and Europe, cementing her reputation as a major exponent of psychological thrillers. In 1963, Highsmith moved to England where her critical reputation continued to grow. Following

6603-419: The resolution "inappropriate and counterproductive." In a 6–5 vote, the council decided to withdraw the resolution. In 2023, three Palestinian-American students were shot and injured in an incident during Thanksgiving break. The city of Burlington is situated on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain , north of Shelburne Bay. It was built on a strip of land extending about 6 miles (9.7 km) south from

6696-483: The suspense story in a toweringly high place in the hierarchy of fiction." Her second novel, The Price of Salt , published under a pseudonym in 1952, was ground breaking for its positive depiction of lesbian relationships and optimistic ending. She remains controversial for her antisemitic, racist and misanthropic statements. Highsmith was born Mary Patricia Plangman in Fort Worth, Texas on January 19, 1921. She

6789-476: The world. In 1946, Highsmith read Albert Camus ' The Stranger and was impressed by his absurdist vision. The following year she commenced writing Strangers on a Train , and her new agent submitted an early draft to a publisher's reader who recommended major revisions. Based on the recommendation of Truman Capote , Highsmith was accepted by the Yaddo artist's retreat during the summer of 1948, where she worked on

6882-739: The years, supported several local bands and has launched a handful of national acts. The most famous of these is Phish , which originated at UVM in 1983. Other acts with ties to the city include Matisyahu , Kat Wright , Strangefolk , The Essex Green , RAQ , James Kochalka , The Jazz Mandolin Project , Pork Tornado , Anaïs Mitchell , Greg Davis , Koushik , Grace Potter and the Nocturnals , Dispatch , Prydein , Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello , Noah Kahan , Morgan Page , KT Tunstall , Rubblebucket , The Vacant Lots , Drowningman , 99 Neighbors , Greg Freeman, and Twiddle . The "South End Art Hop"

6975-446: Was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers , including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley . She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories in a career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing was influenced by existentialist literature, and questioned notions of identity and popular morality . She

7068-466: Was awarded by New Hampshire colonial governor Benning Wentworth on June 7, 1763, to Samuel Willis and 63 others. In the summer of 1775, settlers began clearing the land and built two or three log huts, but the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War delayed permanent settlement until after its conclusion. The town was organized in 1785. In 1808 the world's first lake-going steamboat

7161-670: Was awarded the John Scott Medal of The Franklin Institute in 1914. Kent's son-in-law, William L. Van Alen, is the founder of the United States Court Tennis Association Kent was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia's Hall of Fame in 1992. Burlington, Vermont Burlington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Chittenden County . It

7254-666: Was because they were "too subtle". In 1970, Highsmith flew to the United States where she visited New York and her family in Fort Worth. She drew on her trip for her novel A Dog's Ransom (1972) which is set in Manhattan. In November 1970 she moved to the village of Moncourt , in the Moselle region of France. The novels she wrote there include Ripley's Game (1974), Edith's Diary (1977) and The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980). In 1977, she saw Wim Wenders' The American Friend ,

7347-520: Was becoming more eccentric and antisocial. When her love affair ended in late 1966, she decided to move to France. After a brief visit to Tunisia, Highsmith moved to the Île-de-France in 1967 and eventually settled at Montmachoux in April 1968. Her novels of this period include The Tremor of Forgery (1969), which Graham Greene considered her finest work, and Ripley Under Ground (1970) which gained generally positive reviews. Her books, however, were selling poorly in America which her agent suggested

7440-620: Was built in 1882 as a gift to the City of Burlington from Hannah Louisa Howard, a local philanthropist. A native of the city, she was the daughter of John Howard, a successful Burlington hotelier. The chapel was designed in the High Victorian Gothic style by Alfred Benjamin Fisher, on cemetery grounds designed by E. C. Ryer in 1871. Patricia Highsmith Patricia Highsmith (born Mary Patricia Plangman ; January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995)

7533-534: Was built in Burlington. The War of 1812 was unpopular in Vermont and the rest of New England , which had numerous trading ties with Canada. Neither Vermont nor other New England states provided militia units or financial support. Vermont voters supported the Federalist Party , which opposed the war. At one point during the war, the U.S. had 5,000 troops stationed in Burlington, outnumbering residents and putting

7626-533: Was called the Kent Electric Manufacturing Company, which he began in the back room of his father’s machine shop, and from which he sold small electric motors, generators, fans, and later automobile ignition systems . The Unisparker Ignition systems became the automobile industry standard for almost 50 years, until the advent of the HEI systems. In 1921, Kent produced his first radio components, selling

7719-431: Was compounded by the expiration of patents on the superheterodyne circuit—which led directly to the proliferation of inexpensive All American Five radio designs. New firms could now easily enter the radio manufacturing market without the same level of capital investment Kent had put into his production process, which relied on heavy metal presses for the relatively large Tuned Radio Frequency (TRF) type radio chassis

7812-675: Was consistently unfaithful to her lovers. She noted in her 1949 diary that she couldn’t sustain any relationship for more than two to three years. In 1943 she wrote, "there is something perverted within me, that I don’t love a girl anymore if she loves me more than I love her." According to biographer Andrew Wilson , "She would be forever prone to falling in love but always happiest when alone." Highsmith held varying views about her sexuality throughout her life. In 1942 she wrote that lesbians were inferior to homosexual men because they never sought their equals. Later she told author Marijane Meaker : "the only difference between us and heterosexuals

7905-429: Was dubbed "the poet of apprehension " by novelist Graham Greene . Born in Fort Worth , Texas, and mostly raised in her infancy by her maternal grandmother, Highsmith moved to New York City at the age of six to live with her mother and step father. After graduating college in 1942, she worked as a writer for comic books while writing her own short stories and novels in her spare time. Her literary breakthrough came with

7998-763: Was made an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. In 1993 her health deteriorated and she required the help of a home carer. Highsmith died on February 4, 1995, at 74, from aplastic anemia and lung cancer at Carita Hospital in Locarno , Switzerland, near Tegna. She was cremated at the cemetery in Bellinzona ; a memorial service was conducted in the Chiesa di Tegna in Tegna and her ashes were interred in its columbarium . She left her estate , worth an estimated $ 3 million, and

8091-476: Was named after Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington , and the second is that the name honors the politically prominent and wealthy Burling family of New York. While no Burling family members are listed as grantees of the town, the family held large tracts of land in nearby towns, some of which were granted on the same day as Burlington. One of the New Hampshire grants , the land that was developed as Burlington

8184-541: Was praised in the New York Times Book Review for "sincerity and good taste" but the reviewer found the characters underdeveloped. The novel made Highsmith a respected figure in the New York lesbian community, but as she did not publicly acknowledge authorship, it did not further her literary reputation. In September 1953, Highsmith traveled to Fort Worth where she completed a fair copy of The Blunderer which

8277-615: Was published the following year. In 1954 she worked on a new novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, about a young American who kills a rich compatriot in Italy and assumes his identity. She completed the novel in six months in Lenox , Massachusetts, and Santa Fe and Mexico. The Talented Mr. Ripley was published in December 1955 to favorable reviews in the New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker , their critics praising Highsmith's convincing portrait of

8370-542: Was shy and reticent, a woman with deep feelings, someone who was affectionate but also difficult." Gary Fisketjon, her American editor the 1980s, said, "She was very rough, very difficult ... But she was also plainspoken, dryly funny, and great fun to be around." Highsmith lived alone for most of her adult life, stating in a 1991 interview, "I choose to live alone because my imagination functions better when I don't have to speak with people." Although she preferred her personal life to remain private, she took no steps to avoid

8463-640: Was stopped by a citizens' committee, which successfully had it added to the National Register of Historic Places , and a grant allowed the stabilization and repair of the building. A new modern addition was completed in 1981. The largest public library in Vermont, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places , the Fletcher Free Library had a budget of over $ 1 million in 2002. It circulated more books, had more visitors, and had more computers, than any other library in Vermont. In addition to its primary services as Burlington's public library, it

8556-725: Was the only child of commercial artists Jay Bernard Plangman (1889–1975) and Mary Plangman ( née Coates; September 13, 1895 – March 12, 1991). Her father had not wanted a child and had persuaded her mother to have an abortion. Her mother, after a failed attempt to abort her by drinking turpentine , decided to leave Plangman. The couple divorced nine days before their daughter's birth. In 1927 Highsmith moved to New York City to live with her mother and her stepfather, commercial artist Stanley Highsmith, whom her mother had married in 1924. Patricia excelled at school and read widely, including works by Jack London , Louisa May Alcott , Robert Louis Stevenson , Bram Stoker , and John Ruskin . At

8649-598: Was the only long-term job Highsmith ever held. Highsmith considered comics boring "hack work" and was determined to become a novelist. In the evenings she wrote short stories which she submitted, unsuccessfully, to publications such as The New Yorker. In 1944 she spent five months in Mexico where she worked on an unfinished novel "The Click of the Shutting". On her return to Manhattan she worked on another unfinished novel "The Dove Descending". The following year, "The Heroine,"

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