![]() ![]() She had many, but none of them were ever quite home. After Winhall, Buck, the dancing instructor, and his young, male entourage moved a few mountains over, to Danby, Vermont, where she ended her years, “seated at the window in Chinese silk robes, drawing five or six thousand people each summer as the town’s sole tourist attraction,” according to the excellent and riveting Hilary Spurling biography, Pearl Buck in China. Nearby is the old Liftline lodge on Stratton, where she and the 38-years-younger ‘dancing instructor’ who was her companion in her final years liked to have dinner. Every day, I pass Pearl Buck Drive and the road to Buck’s summer home. Buck (1892–1973), an American famous for novels about China, lived during one of the strange closing chapters of her long, strange life. ![]() I’m in Vermont for the summer, living in the town of Winhall, where Pearl S. In Valerie Stivers’s Eat Your Words series, she cooks up recipes drawn from the works of various writers. ![]()
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