Part Two deepens the journey, digging beneath the surface of Vermont's bucolic image to explore labor wars, The Eugenics movement, the McCarthy era, and progressive Republicanism. Covering over a century - from pre-Civil War to 2009 - it chronicles the rise of unions and quarry work, Barre's Socialist Labor Party Hall, the marketing of Vermont, the state's reaction to New Deal policies, George Aiken's gentle populism, and Republican Ralph Flanders' heroic stand against Joe McCarthy during the Red Scare. Emigres from urban areas, "back-to-the-landers" like Helen and Scott Nearing and filmmaker Nora Jacobson's own father, Nicholas Biel Jacobson, came to Vermont in search of an alternative lifestyle.