Noel Perrin (1927-2004) was an author, Professor of English Literature, and self-taught farmer. A city transplant, he moved to Thetford Center, Vermont, in 1963. There he began his explorations of rural life which he chronicled in his many books and essays. Noel Perrin was the first Vermonter to interconnect a solar electric (photovoltaic or PV) system with the grid, a…