Photograph of citizens reciting the patriotic Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag at start of the annual town meeting at Union Meeting House in the rural village of Burke Hollow, Vermont. The New England town meeting is a form of government by participatory democracy where all the residents are invited to participate as the governing body for political, administrative, or legislative purposes. Town officials are on the stage to discuss budget, zoning, and other policy issues. In Vermont the first Tuesday in March is Town Meeting Day. Budgets are discussed in detail and approved by voter plebiscite. Local officials are also voted in an election. The flag is held by prediding officer Theron Morse. Burke Hollow is in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Photograph by Nathan Benn taken March 6, 1973.

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Burke Hollow, Northeast Kingdom,

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