The significance of man is that he alone can stand apart imaginatively and, regarding himself and the universe in their eternal aspects, pronounce a judgment: The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.--Carl Becker I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled in dry rot.  Man's chief purpose is to live, not to exist.  I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.  I shall use my time. --Jack London Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their children are once more slaves.--D. H. Lawrence

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Read about Frank Bryan

• "Searching for the Soul of Town Meeting in Starksboro," Burlington Free Press (February 11, 2011).
  
• "Made in Vermont: Meet Frank Bryan, the Green Mountain Independence Movement's Avatar," Vermont Commons (Summer 2011).
  
• "In Vermont, a Scholar Records Democracy at Work," The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 1, 2005).
  
• “Frank Bryan Leans to Conservative Values, Liberal Vision,” Burlington Free Press (November 28, 1982).
• “UVM People Making a Difference,” The Greatness Within Our Grasp (October 2003)
  
• “Being Frank,” Vermont Quarterly The publication of the University of Vermont (October 2003)
  
• “Frankly Speaking: An Interview with UVM Professor Frank Bryan,” Vermont Magazine (November/December 2001)
  
• “The Bull Will Kill You,” Vermont Quarterly The publication of the University of Vermont (Autumn, 1996).
• “Keeper of the Vermont Character,” Yankee Magazine  (March, 1992).
• “Townscape Newbury,” Vermont Magazine (November/December 1989).
  
• “An Interview with Frank Bryan: Real Vermonters and Real Democracy,” Window of Vermont (Winter/Spring 1984-85).
• "Frank Bryan: Profile of a Polemicist," Vermont Life (Spring 1984).
  

Frank Bryan Featured in:

• "Vive le Vermont Libre," Maisonneuve (April 19, 2013).
  
• "When Town Halls Go Viral, There's Sickness in the Air," Washington Post (August 14, 2009)
  
• "In Vermont, Nascent Secession Movement Gains Traction," Associated Press (June 3, 2007)
  
• "Free Vermont:  Green Mountain Boys Ponder Secession" The American Conservative (Dec. 19, 2005)
• "Frank Bryan Debates New York" Vermont Cynic (November 2005)
  
• "Frank Bryan Speaks on Jefferson, Democracy and Town Meeting" The Ethan Allen Letter (May 2005)
  
• "Town Meeting Tradition" The View (March 2005)
• "Democracy in Vermont" The American Conservative (September 13, 2004)
  
• “13 People Changing the Face of Vermont” Vermont Magazine” (January/February 1990).
• One of the 20^th Century Writers “Who Capture Vermont’s Unique Character” Vermont Life (Winter, 1989).
• One of “New England Leading Humorists” Yankee Magazine (September, 1987).
• Kathleen Thompson, Portrait of America: Vermont (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Roundtree  Publishers, A Turner Book and Video, 1987).

Awards and Recognitions

• Resolution by the Vermont House and Senate honoring Bryan's career, April 16, 2013
  
• Received the National Association of Secretaries of State Medallion Award, December 22, 2010.
  
• Received the Honorary  Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Marlboro College at the May 18, 2008 commencement.
  
• Received the Curtiss/Loyzelle Green Mountain Boys' State Director's Award for over 20 years of giving the keynote address at the Governor's Inauguration Ceremony, June, 2006.
  
• Named the John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science, 2005.
  
• George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award. Given by UVM Alumni Association, 2004.
  
• Selected for the "Prominent Vermonters Box Lunch Auction" at the Vermont History Expo 2004.
• Awarded "Doctor of Letters (All 26)" from Newbury Elementary School, January 2004.
  
• Chosen one of six "Interesting Vermont Personalities," series sponsored by the Elder Education Enrichment of Chittenden County, 2004.
  
• Delivered the First Annual "Last Lecture" at the Convocation Ceremony of the University of Vermont, 1996.
• Dean's Lecture Award.  Given by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Vermont, 1996.
• Andrew E. Nuquist Town Government Award.  Given by the Vermont League of Cities and Towns, 1986.
• The 1986 Annual New England Local Hero Award.  Given by the New England Monthly for service on behalf of the defense of town meeting.
• Recognition of Service Award National Advisory Council on Rural Development, 1986-1988 United States Department of Agriculture, 1988.
• Certificate of Service The American Society for Public Administration 1983-1985.
  
• Co‑Recipient of the dedication of the 1974 Shield (The St. Michael's Yearbook).
• The 1974 St. Michael's College Community Service Award.

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