The river Vermont traded for a country

The river Vermont traded for a country

This commentary is by Justin Neuman, who is a professor of literary studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School and a developer of philosophical software.  Some mornings I put my wooden canoe in the Connecticut River north of Bellows Falls and paddle out onto water that isn’t Vermont’s. The line between Vermont and New Hampshire doesn’t run down the middle of the river, the way river borders traditionally do. It runs along the low-water mark …