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Vt. town once home to Alexander Solzhenitsyn considers exhibit to honour Soviet dissident

By: Lisa Rathke, The Associated Press

Friday, Mar. 1, 2013 at 3:43 PM | Comments: 0

FILE- In this May 24, 1994 file photo, Alexander Solzhenitsyn jokes with the media as he leaves his long-time home in Cavendish, Vt. to return to his native Russia. Voters in the Vermont town that was once the home-in-exile of the former Soviet dissident author are expected to decide whether to commemorate his 18 years in Cavendish. On Town Meeting day, voters will decide whether the town should assume ownership of an historic stone church that would be used to house an exhibit honoring the Nobel laureate who arrived in Cavendish in 1977 and stayed until 1995. He died in Russia in 2008.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

MONTPELIER, Vt. - Residents in the Vermont town that was once the home-in-exile of the former Soviet dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn (sohl-zhen-EET'-sihn) plan to decide on an exhibit honouring his 18 years in Cavendish.

On Town Meeting day Monday, voters will decide whether the town should assume ownership of an historic stone church that would be used to house an exhibit honouring the Nobel laureate who arrived in Cavendish in 1977 and stayed until 1994. He died in Russia in 2008.

The house Solzhenitsyn lived in is still occupied by his son Ignat and his family.

There is no monument to Solzhenitsyn's years in Vermont.

Margo Caulfield of the Cavendish Historical Society says visitors regularly ask about Solzhenitsyn. A group of Russian visitors last summer led her to suggest an exhibit.

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