The Pandemic Toll

The first visual installment focusing on small Vermont businesses driven to extinction during the first year of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Barrel to Bottle, Danville, VT ©Ava Lafferty 2021

Barney’s Market, Concord, VT ©Ava Lafferty 2021

Both businesses were owned by the same individual, a Vermont native and Lyndonville resident. The pandemic driven failure of these two businesses left at least eight Vermonters unemployed. The cook at Barney’s made the best BBQ pulled pork heroes this side of the Mississippi.