Born in India, Rudyard Kipling is renowned for his varied exciting tales of the sub-continent.  Less well-known is the Nobel laureate’s attachment to the United States and especially to Vermont, where he lived (in Brattleboro) for over four years.  Here he made the acquaintance of Dr. James Conland who had fished with the Grand Banks fleet as a youth. Dr. Conland’s nautical reminiscences sparked Kipling’s creative mind and, “rejoicing to escape from the dread respectability of our little town” the two men ran off to “the shore front, and to the...