Reviews

This is a wonderful book. Austin describes in delicious detail small-town life in Vermont of the thirties of the last century. Once you start reading it, you won't stop until Austin stops.- David Hapgood, author of Monte Cassino and translator of Camus' The First Man
"Retrieving Times" isn't just memoir, or history, it is the biography of a beloved place, Norwich, Vermont, which Granville Austin first encountered in 1932. Across three-quarters of a century, Austin has indeed retrieved something astonishing: a town remembered in its detail, through its characters, and through the wisdom of those around him. He has managed to find and recapture an American place, free of both nostalgia and the bitterness that often colors small time life, especially for those who have left it behind.- Philip Kennicott, Culture Critic, The Washington Post
With lively prose, Granville Austin (known as Red throughout his times here) paints an insightful and colorful portrait of his youth in Norwich, Vermont. Whether you were born in the '20s or many years later, the characters and times Red evokes cast a spell and bring one to envy how he was "learnd".- Nancy Osgood, President, Norwich Historical Society