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Michael Nethercott is the winner of the 2014 Vermont Writers’ Prize. His story “An Empire at Twilight” reveals an elderly man’s close connection to land that has been in his family for generations. The Vermont Writers’ prize is awarded by Green Mountain Power and Vermont Magazine.
Mr. Nethercott’s winning story starts as the main character is showing his family’s land to an out-of-state couple purchasing it: