After studying a two-volume description of historic Craftsbury architecture, Tom Twetten was left wanting more. Craftsbury Historic Sites & Structures Survey of 1983, conducted to qualify sites for the Vermont State Register of Historic Places, “is beautifully done — very thorough on surrounds and roof pitches and foundations,” Twetten said. “But if you’re not a historic preservation architect, it’s terribly boring.” His adopted hometown deserved more, he believed. And so Twetten, who moved to Craftsbury 30 years ago — “which makes me a newcomer,” he said — set out to tell the stories of the town’s historic buildings and the people who lived in them, and those who still do. He recruited another “newcomer,” 45-year resident Harry H. Miller, to take photos, and nine months later, the limited-edition, 194-page book they published to benefit Craftsbury Public Library rolled off the press. Craftsbury Celebration: Old Homes, Barns, and Their Stories goes on sale at a book launch at the library on Friday, August 8. Five hundred signed and numbered copies are available for $49 each. There won’t be a second printing. An additional three leather-bound volumes are priced at $1,000. If everything sells, the endeavor will raise $27,500, a hefty sum for a small-town library with an annual budget of $144,000. Like many Vermont libraries, Craftsbury Public Library operates independently of the town. It has a small endowment, the town contributes 40 percent of its budget, and the library raises the rest. “I’m always writing grants,” director Susan O’Connell said. Twetten and Miller each chipped in $4,000 to publish Craftsbury Celebration so that the library would receive the full cover price. Board of trustees president Alan Turnbull was floored when he learned of their project. “To have a thing like this for an organization that’s used to bringing in $800, $400 or $1,500 is really terrific,” he said. Turnbull was one of the first to see the finished product. “It’s gorgeous,” he said. Twetten, 90, is a retired CIA deputy director for operations, a former antiquarian book dealer and past president of the library board of trustees. Miller, 67, is a custom home builder and avid photographer who built the current library 23 years ago. Their book features 74 Craftsbury homes built in or before 1860 that remain in use, along with a handful of newer structures significant to the town: barns, Craftsbury Academy, East Craftsbury Presbyterian Church and…