“We don’t talk about the reality TV thing.” “It’s kind of the elephant in the room with my family,” he said. His mother, who was visiting for the week, was watching her. His eyes are crinkly now his sandy hair seems uncertain of its next move. This was where, on a recent day, Danny Roberts was standing in the doorway of the tiny cabin in the woods where he lives with his 6-year-old daughter. Make it to Grafton (population: 645), and your cell service largely evaporates. When you cross into Vermont from New York, the road opens up and the Green Mountains emerge.