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Life and death of Darrell Adams
https://www.vtcng.com/news_and_citizen/news/local_news/life-and-death-of-darrell-adams/article_0da13fe4-2479-11ed-82c2-27c427bdcf91.htmlLife and death of Darrell Adams
Aaron Calvin | Staff Writer
Aug 25, 2022
In the last summer of his life, Darrell Adams planted a garden.
He grew tomatoes, Swiss chard, butter lettuce and kale in a raised bed at the Morrisville Community Garden.
Adams was getting back to his roots, thought Dan McLaughlin, the garden manager, as he had spoken to him frequently of his childhood spent working on farms in Stowe, which he still recalled at 64 years old.
Through the cold nights and sometimes blisteringly hot days of that final July, Adams tended to his garden and sat by the tool shed, watching over ripening vegetables and towering sunflower stalks, not yet bloomed.
According to many who knew him — those who watched out for him in the final years of his life, old friends, family and his fellow veterans at the Morrisville VFW — Adams was an exceptionally kind, generous and intelligent person with a dry wit and thoughtful demeanor.
He was also, in the final years of his life, mostly homeless.
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Aaron Calvin | Staff Writer
Aug 25, 2022
In the last summer of his life, Darrell Adams planted a garden.
He grew tomatoes, Swiss chard, butter lettuce and kale in a raised bed at the Morrisville Community Garden.
Adams was getting back to his roots, thought Dan McLaughlin, the garden manager, as he had spoken to him frequently of his childhood spent working on farms in Stowe, which he still recalled at 64 years old.
Through the cold nights and sometimes blisteringly hot days of that final July, Adams tended to his garden and sat by the tool shed, watching over ripening vegetables and towering sunflower stalks, not yet bloomed.
According to many who knew him — those who watched out for him in the final years of his life, old friends, family and his fellow veterans at the Morrisville VFW — Adams was an exceptionally kind, generous and intelligent person with a dry wit and thoughtful demeanor.
He was also, in the final years of his life, mostly homeless.
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