Charlie Brown and The Blue Tooth

Photography by Barrie Fisher In the early 1960s, Charlie Brown was working in the computer industry down in Florida when friends invited him for a visit to the Mad River Valley of Vermont. He remembers vividly the first day he arrived here, walking into the Blue Tooth—a popular bar on the Sugarbush Access Road—and feeling embraced by the music. “I fell in love,” he recalls with a warm smile. Soon after his Vermont visit, Brown was offered a promising job …