The Nation, June 24th, 1991
The economic failure in Massachusetts, which followed fast on the defunct economic miracle, has nevertheless spawned a rather miraculous movement of protest. On June 3 more than a thousand residents of several tiny towns in the northwestern part of the state filled the streets of Shelburne Falls in a conscious reenactment of Shays' Rebellion, the brave, but doomed, revolt of overtaxed and debt-ridden farmers against the landed gentry, merchants and bankers of post-Revolutionary New England.
Two hundred and five years later, the principal of the Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School, Paul Swe...
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