BARBARA DEVOID, LEFT, Rosemary Willmarth, Shirley LaMothe and Jeanette Charron pose with the Middlebury Union High School tiger mascot during the Middlebury High School class of 1953 reunion lunch last Saturday.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
MIDDLEBURY — It can take a howitzer, cymbals and a foghorn to rouse some of today’s children from slumber to get to morning classes on time.
Pat (James) Brogan didn’t have that problem; sleeping late was a luxury neither she nor her family could afford, running Monument Farms Dairy in Weybridge during the early 1940s. Most of the menfolk had left to fight on distant battlefields during World War II, leaving women and children to perform most of the agricultural chores.
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