The Grid and the Village By Stephen Doheny-Farina
ger in my front yard. This book is another screen, another lens trained on those events.It tells stories about two villages separated by time,connected by proximity,and united by the challenges of maintaining a community under duress.
The story of one village presents an insider’s view of a natural disaster, describing the destruction of the electric grid in January 1998 and the emergence of a community that filled the resulting void.This story begins with moments in the lives of people in the village of Potsdam, New York people such as myself,my family,my neighbors,townspeople,local officials, and relief workers and expands to cover the breadth of the disaster. The book concludes with a timeline of events that traces the disaster from the storm’s origins in the Gulf of Mexico to the lethal flooding it caused as it moved slowly up the eastern seaboard to the icy devastation it brought to the Northeast. The story of the other village begins nearly two hundred years before the ice storm in a place called Louisville Landing, about twenty miles from Potsdam on the border between the United States and Canada.This narrative provides a glimpse of what it took to build the kind of grids that made this nation, the grids that connect us to one another. It is told through the experiences of some of the people who sacrificed the most to build them.
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