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PERHAPS NO OTHER STATE

IS AS FIERCELY INDEPENDENT \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAS VERMONT.

THE GREEN MOUNTAIN STATE,

FOUNDED BY AN UNRULY \h\hBUNCH OF YANKEES

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKNOWN AS THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS.

NO OTHER STATE IS AS "GREEN"--

\hIN ITS TREES, MOUNTAINS, AND QUEST FOR CONSERVATION.

IT WAS THE FIRST STATE IN THE UNION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY.

BUT ALSO THE STATE WHOSE NATIVE INDIAN POPULATION

WOULD ALL BUT DISAPPEAR.

THE STATE WHOSE LAKES AND LAND

WERE FIRST EXPLORED \h\hBY THE FRENCH,

BUT SETTLED BY THE ENGLISH.

\hTODAY ITS GREAT LAKE STILL HARBORS A MONSTER

OLDER THAN "NESSIE" \h\h\hOF LOCH NESS.

\h\hITS LAND IS HOME TO SOME OF THE MOST PRISTINE FARMLAND

IN THE NATION.

ITS WOODS THE INSPIRATION

FOR THE GREAT AMERICAN POET \h\h\h\h\h\h\hROBERT FROST,

\hWHO PERHAPS BEST DESCRIBED VERMONT

AS "THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED."

THIS NORTHERN STATE \hOF STONY FIELDS,

RED PAINTED BARNS \hAND SUGAR MAPLES

\h\hIS STILL A PLACE WHERE MAD RIVERS RUN

BENEATH COVERED BRIDGES.

VERMONT SHOWS US AN AMERICA

YOUNG, GREEN AND FULL OF PROMISE.

\hFROM THE TIME THE GLACIERS MELTED OVER 10,000 YEARS AGO,

THIS VAST BODY OF WATER

HAS DEFINED THE LAND AND LIFE AROUND IT.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN.

\h\h\h\h\h120 MILES LONG AND IN SOME PLACES 12 MILES WIDE.

IT LIES DEEP IN A VALLEY \h\h\hCARVED BY GLACIERS,

WITH THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hTO THE WEST

AND THE GREEN MOUNTAINS \h\h\h\h\hTO THE EAST.

TODAY THE SKELETAL REMAINS \h\h\h\h\hOF BELUGA WHALES

ARE EVIDENCE THAT THE LAKE \h\h\h\h\h\hWAS ONCE A PART

\hOF A SALTY INLAND ARM OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.

THE LAKE TAKES ITS NAME

FROM THE GREAT FRENCH EXPLORER SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN,

KNOWN AS THE FATHER \h\hOF NEW FRANCE.

IN 1609, HE HEADED SOUTH ON THE LAKE FROM CANADA,

\h\hAND WAS LIKELY THE FIRST EUROPEAN

TO SET FOOT ON ISLE LA MOTTE.

\hUNDER THESE WATERS LIES THE CHAZY REEF.

\h\hSCIENTISTS CLAIM IT’S THE WORLD’S OLDEST REEF,

WHERE CORALS FIRST APPEARED.

FORMED HALF A BILLION YEARS AGO,

IT WAS PART OF AN ANCIENT OCEAN WHICH COVERED

\h\h\hMOST OF THE EASTERN NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT.

UNTIL THE 20th CENTURY,

THE ONLY CLUES TO THE REEF’S \h\h\hSCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE

WERE THE ODD MARKINGS IN THE BEAUTIFUL BLACK LIMESTONE

FROM THE ISLAND’S QUARRIES.

THIS STONE WAS USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION

OF RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, \h\h\hTHE BROOKLYN BRIDGE,

AND THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART.

EARLY QUARRY WORKERS NEVER KNEW

THAT THE STRANGE MARKS \h\h\h\h\h\hON THE ROCK

\h\h\hWERE MARINE FOSSILS HALF A BILLION YEARS OLD.

GIVEN THE GREAT AGE OF THE LAKE,

IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT MYSTERY LURKS DEEP WITHIN THESE WATERS.

THEY ARE HOME TO AN ELUSIVE CREATURE KNOWN AS "CHAMP"--

AMERICA’S VERY OWN LOCH NESS MONSTER.

THE FIRST SIGHTING OF CHAMP \h\h\h\hTOOK PLACE IN 1609,

\h\h\h\hWHEN A MEMBER OF THE CHAMPLAIN EXPEDITION

NOTED "A 20-FOOT SERPENT,

\h\hWITH A HORSE-SHAPED HEAD AND BODY AS THICK AS A KEG."

THERE WERE DOZENS MORE \h\h\h\hCHAMP SIGHTINGS

BEFORE THE FIRST APPEARANCE \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hOF NESSIE--

\h\h\hTHE LOCH NESS MONSTER-- 50 YEARS AFTER CHAMP’S DEBUT.

BUT PERHAPS IT’S NOT SURPRISING TO FIND STRANGE CREATURES

IN PLACES LIKE THIS.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN AND LOCH NESS \h\h\h\h\hARE QUITE SIMILAR.

BOTH ARE DEEP FRESHWATER LAKES CREATED 10,000 YEARS AGO--

\hPERFECT HIDEOUTS FOR SHY MONSTERS.

WHILE CHAMP’S EXISTENCE \hIS YET TO BE PROVEN,

HIS LEGEND HAS BEEN A BOOST FOR TOURISM.

THE NEXT TWO ISLANDS OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN--

NORTH AND SOUTH HERO--

WERE ONCE NAMED "TWO HEROES" IN HONOR OF ETHAN AND IRA ALLEN,

BROTHERS WHO HELPED \hTO FOUND VERMONT.

\hIN 1779, VERMONT GAVE THESE ISLANDS

IN TRIBUTE TO THE ALLENS \h\hAND THEIR ASSOCIATES,

\h\h\h\hPOPULARLY KNOWN AS "THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS."

HOW THE BOYS EARNED THEIR NAME, AND BECAME SO BELOVED,

\h\h\hIS ALSO THE STORY OF HOW AN EARLY COLONY

BECAME KNOWN AS VERMONT.

ONE OF THE SMALLEST STATES \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIN AMERICA,

VERMONT IS A LAND RICH IN LAKES, RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS,

\h\h\h\hPARTICULARLY THE GREEN MOUNTAINS,

WHICH DOMINATE THE STATE.

EARLY FRENCH EXPLORERS NAMED THE LAND "VERT," MEANING GREEN,

AND "MONT," MEANING MOUNTAIN--

THUS "VERMONT," OR VERMONT.

TODAY, ETHAN ALLEN’S HOMESTEAD LIES EAST OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN

AMID THE SPECTACULAR VERMONT SCENERY HE FOUGHT TO DEFEND.

IN THE 1700s,

COLONIAL BOUNDARIES \h\hWERE DETERMINED

BY ROYAL LAND GRANTS \h\hMADE IN ENGLAND.

BUT THE NOTORIOUSLY VAGUE BORDERS LED TO BITTER DISPUTES

\hBETWEEN NEW YORK AND NEW HAMPSHIRE,

WHO BOTH CLAIMED THE LAND

OF VERMONT’S FERTILE \hCHAMPLAIN VALLEY.

\h\hTO PROTECT THEIR LAND FROM THE HATED "YORKERS,"

\hTWO FIERCELY INDEPENDENT NEW HAMPSHIRE LANDOWNERS--

IRA AND ETHAN ALLEN--

\hFORMED A MILITIA CALLED "THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS."

"THE BOYS" DEFIED NEW YORK’S THREAT

TO DRIVE VERMONT SETTLERS \h\h\h\h\h\hOFF THE FIELDS

AND INTO THE GREEN MOUNTAINS \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hTO THE EAST.

INSTEAD THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS FOUGHT OFF THE YORKERS.

\h\hBUT IN THE END NEITHER NEW HAMPSHIRE NOR NEW YORK

WAS ABLE TO CONTROL THE LAND,

AND "THE BOYS" HELPED ESTABLISH THE REPUBLIC OF VERMONT.

\h\h\h\h\hPERCHED ON THE EDGE OF THE LAKE LIES BURLINGTON--

\hNO, NOT THE COAT FACTORY, BUT VERMONT’S LARGEST CITY--

WITH A POPULATION \hOF JUST 40,000.

\hDESPITE ITS SMALL SIZE, IT’S A COSMOPOLITAN TOWN.

IN ITS HEYDAY, AS A PORT CITY \h\h\h\hIN THE STEAMSHIP ERA,

\h\h\h\hIT ATTRACTED SOME FAMOUS VISITORS,

INCLUDING THE AUTHOR \h\hCHARLES DICKENS.

TODAY, THE "PRETTY LITTLE TOWN" OF BURLINGTON--

AS DICKENS DESCRIBED IT--

STILL CAPTIVATES VISITORS.

THE TOWN CENTER AT THE CHURCH STREET MARKETPLACE

\hIS A BUSTLING MIX OF CAFES AND SHOPS.

AND THE LAKE ATTRACTS SWIMMERS,

AND MOST OF ALL SAILORS WHO LOVE CHAMPLAIN’S GUSTY WINDS.

MOVING INLAND LIE CAMEL’S HUMP AND MOUNT MANSFIELD--

THE TWO HIGHEST MOUNTAINS \h\h\h\h\h\h\hIN VERMONT.

\h\h\h\h\h\hOVER THE HUMP, AND DOWN INTO THE VALLEY,

JUST THREE MILES AWAY,

\h\hIS THE 45-ACRE SHELBURNE MUSEUM--

A VILLAGE OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS

THAT HOLD THE FINEST COLLECTION OF AMERICANA IN THE COUNTRY.

KNOWN AS "THE SMITHSONIAN \h\h\h\h\hOF NEW ENGLAND,"

\h\h\hTHE VILLAGE HOLDS OVER 100,000 ARTIFACTS,

FROM CIGAR STORE INDIANS TO A FULL-SIZED CAROUSEL.

ONE OF THE TOWN’S \hSTRANGER SIGHTS

IS THE 220-FOOT TICONDEROGA-- \h\h\h\h\h\hA GRACEFUL RELIC

FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF STEAMSHIP TRAVEL.

SHE MADE HER LAST VOYAGE OVER LAND, MOORING HERE IN 1955.

TODAY SHE OFFERS VISITORS \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hA GLIMPSE

INTO THE ELEGANT LIFE OF TRAVEL ABOARD A 19th-CENTURY STEAMSHIP.

NEARBY IS SHELBURNE FARMS,

AN ESTATE OF NEARLY 400 ACRES \h\h\hWITH SEVERAL BUILDINGS.

ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE \h\h\hIS THE BREEDING BARN.

THE FARM WAS CREATED IN 1886

\h\hBY LILA VANDERBILT AND WILLIAM SEWARD WEBB

AS A MODEL AGRICULTURAL ESTATE.

\h\h\h\h\hTODAY IT OPERATES AS A NON-PROFIT WORKING FARM

TEACHING CONSERVATION.

FOR OVER 100 CENTURIES,

\hNATIVE AMERICANS CALLED THE ABENAKI

TRAVELED VERMONT’S WATERWAYS \h\h\hIN BIRCH BARK CANOES.

THE WINOOSKI, FROM AN ABENAKI WORD MEANING "WILD ONION LAND,"

\h\hIS ONE OF VERMONT’S MOST IMPORTANT RIVERS,

\h\h\h\hRUNNING 90 MILES FROM THE GREEN MOUNTAINS

WEST TO LAKE CHAMPLAIN.

THIS WAS THE WATERWAY USED BY GENERATIONS OF ABENAKI

\hTO REACH THEIR LARGEST SETTLEMENT--MISSISSQUOI.

\h\h\h\hHERE THEY LIVED AS FARMERS AND HUNTERS

UNTIL THE ARRIVAL OF EUROPEANS,

WHOSE DISEASES AND WARS \h\hWOULD BRING AN END

TO THE ABENAKI WAY OF LIFE.

TODAY, THE AREA IS PRESERVED \h\h\hAS A WILDLIFE REFUGE.

AND, WHILE 2,500 ABENAKI STILL LIVE HERE AROUND THE LAKE,

MUCH OF THEIR HERITAGE IS LOST.

MOVING EAST TO RICHMOND,

HERE ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL \h\h\hBUILDINGS IN THE STATE

STANDS AS A TESTAMENT

\h\hTO VERMONT’S CREDO OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.

\h\h\h\h\hIT’S KNOWN AS THE "OLD ROUND CHURCH."

ALTHOUGH IT APPEARS ROUND, \hIT’S ACTUALLY 16-SIDED.

\h\hAS THE STORY GOES, 16 MEN BUILT THE CHURCH

AND THE 17th BUILT THE BELFRY.

ONE THEORY FOR ITS SHAPE IS THAT IF THE CHURCH HAS NO CORNERS

\h\h\h\hTHERE’S NOWHERE FOR THE DEVIL TO HIDE.

IN TIME, THE ROUND CHURCH \h\hBECAME THE TOWN HALL.

HERE ANNUAL TOWN MEETINGS-- \h\h\hA VERMONT TRADITION--

WERE HELD FOR 160 YEARS.

AT ONE POINT HENRY FORD TRIED TO BUY THE CHURCH

AND MOVE IT TO MICHIGAN.

BUT THE TOWN’S ANSWER WAS A VERY FIRM "NO!"

\h\hJUST OFF THE INTERSTATE HEADING NORTH IS WATERBURY,

A TOWN THAT HOLDS \hA SPECIAL PLACE

IN THE HEARTS OF ICE CREAM FANS.

THIS IS THE HOME OF BEN & JERRY’S ICE CREAM FACTORY,

THE CULMINATION OF AN AMAZING \h\h\hAMERICAN SUCCESS STORY.

BACK IN 1978,

AFTER TAKING A FIVE-DOLLAR \h\h\hCORRESPONDENCE COURSE

IN ICE CREAM MANUFACTURING,

BEN COHEN AND JERRY GREENFIELD

OPENED BEN & JERRY’S FIRST ICE CREAM STORE IN BURLINGTON.

TODAY, FROM THIS BUILDING,

THOUSANDS OF GALLONS OF CHERRY GARCIA AND CHUNKY MONKEY

MAKE THEIR WAY TO FANS \h\h\hACROSS THE STATE

AND ALL OVER THE WORLD.

\h\h\h\h\hFOR OVER 30 YEARS, BEN & JERRY’S HAS BEEN KNOWN

AS A PHENOMENALLY SUCCESSFUL \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hBUSINESS

WITH ONE OF THE BEST CORPORATE REPUTATIONS IN AMERICA.

\h\h\h\h\hWINTER IN VERMONT IS A TIME OF DEEP SNOWS...

AND WILSON BENTLEY.

\h\h\h\h\hTHE MOST FAMOUS SON OF THE LITTLE TOWN OF JERICHO

WAS A MAN BORN VERY MUCH

IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME.

IN 1885,

BENTLEY COMBINED THE NEW TECHNOLOGY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

WITH A MICROSCOPE

TO STUDY THE SNOWFLAKE.

"SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY," AS HE BECAME KNOWN,

WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO DISCOVER

THAT NO TWO SNOWFLAKES \h\h\h\h\h\hARE ALIKE.

TODAY MUCH OF WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT SNOW IS BASED ON HIS RESEARCH.

\hIN THE 20th CENTURY, SNOW BECAME A GOLDMINE

FOR THE 200-YEAR-OLD TOWN \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hOF STOWE,

LOCATED ON MOUNT MANSFIELD.

AT OVER 4,000 FEET, IT’S THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN IN VERMONT.

AND THE VIEWS FROM THE SUMMIT

ARE WELL WORTH THE FOUR-HOUR HIKE TO THE TOP.

IN 1900, THE FIRST "SKIER" SLID DOWN THE MOUNTAIN ON "SKIS"

MADE FROM STAVES FROM A BARREL.

BUT SKIING REALLY TOOK OFF \h\h\h\h\hWITH THE CREATION

OF THE COUNTRY’S FIRST ROPE TOW IN 1934.

TODAY, STOWE IS ONE OF THE BEST SKI MOUNTAINS IN NEW ENGLAND.

AND ALTHOUGH THESE HILLS \h\h\h\h\h\hAREN’T ALIVE

WITH THE VOICE OF JULIE ANDREWS,

THEY ARE HOME TO THE FAMOUS \h\h\h\h\hVON TRAPP FAMILY.

THEIR STORY OF A DARING ESCAPE FROM NAZI-OCCUPIED AUSTRIA

\h\hINSPIRED THE MOVIE "THE SOUND OF MUSIC."

HERE THE FAMILY BEGAN

\h\h\h\hTHE COUNTRY’S FIRST CROSS COUNTRY SKI CENTER--

\h\hTHE 2,400-ACRE TRAPP FAMILY LODGE.

\h\h\hTHE LOCATION, OVERLOOKING MEADOWS,

A VALLEY AND THE GREEN MOUNTAINS

HAS A DISTINCTLY AUSTRIAN AIR.

SIX MILES NORTH OF STOWE,

\h\h\hTRAVELERS ARRIVE AT A DENSE, DARK FOREST

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAND A GORGE, KNOWN AS SMUGGLERS’ NOTCH.

ALTHOUGH THIS NARROW PASS HAD LONG BEEN KNOWN FOR SMUGGLING,

IT BECAME THE SCENE OF AN HISTORIC CLASH

BETWEEN POLITICS AND BUSINESS \h\h\hDURING THE WAR OF 1812.

\h\h\hDESPITE AMERICA’S BAN AGAINST TRADE WITH CANADA,

VERMONTERS DEFIED THE LAW AND SMUGGLED BEEF THROUGH THE NOTCH

TO SELL IN BRITISH CANADA,

WHILE OTHER VERMONTERS FOUGHT TO KEEP THE BRITISH TROOPS AT BAY.

\h\h\h\h\hFOR BOTH SIDES IT MUST HAVE BEEN TOUGH.

IN SUMMER, THE STEEP ROAD

\hFORGES A WINDING PATH THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS.

\h\h\h\h\h\hBUT IN WINTER, SNOW MAKES IT IMPASSABLE,

AND THE NOTCH IS CLOSED.

\h\h\hAND JUST LIKE THE OLD YANKEE YARN,

\hWHEN A VISITOR ASKS THE WAY TO THE SKI AREA AT THE NOTCH,

THE LOCALS’ ANSWER MAY BE, "YOU CAN’T GET THERE FROM HERE."

IN FALL, THE SUGAR MAPLE, \h\hVERMONT’S STATE TREE,

TURNS THE HILLS A FIERY RED,

SETTING THE HILLS ABLAZE \h\h\h\h\h\h\hWITH COLOR.

IN SPRING, WHEN THE MAPLES \h\h\h\hPRODUCE THEIR SAP,

VERMONT’S SUGARING SEASON \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hBEGINS.

ONE GLANCE AT THE FOLIAGE--

SURELY ONE OF NATURE’S MOST EXTRAVAGANT DISPLAYS OF COLOR--

EXPLAINS WHY VERMONT IS INVADED

BY THOUSANDS OF VISITORS \h\h\h\h\h\h\hEVERY FALL.

\h\h\hIN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS LIES THE TOWN OF MONTGOMERY--

COVERED BRIDGE CAPITAL \h\h\h\h\h\hOF VERMONT.

FOR MANY, THE BRIDGES INVOKE NOSTALGIA FOR A SIMPLER TIME.

BUT IN THE 19th CENTURY

THEY WERE A REMARKABLE ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT

\h\h\hTHAT HELPED FACILITATE THE GROWTH OF A YOUNG NATION.

BATTERED BY WINTER ICE AND SNOW,

\h\h\h\hWOODEN BRIDGES DETERIORATED QUICKLY,

LASTING MAYBE 15 YEARS.

BUT BUILDING A COVER TO PROTECT THE MASSIVE STRUCTURAL BEAMS

COULD EXTEND THE LIFE OF A BRIDGE BY OVER 100 YEARS.

IN THE 1870s,

10,000 COVERED BRIDGES SPANNED THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE.

TODAY JUST 750 REMAIN--

WITH OVER 100 OF THEM \h\h\h\h\hIN VERMONT.

\h\h\h\hSIX COVERED BRIDGES STILL STAND IN MONTGOMERY--

MOST OF THEM STILL IN USE.

EAST OF THE GREEN MOUNTAINS

LIES THE SPLENDID ISOLATION OF THE "NORTHEAST KINGDOM."

IT WAS NAMED WHEN A SENATOR \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hFROM VERMONT

\hWAS STRUCK BY THE AREA’S NATURAL SPLENDOR AND SAID,

\h\h\h\h\h\h"THIS IS SUCH BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY UP HERE

THAT IT SHOULD BE CALLED \hTHE NORTHEAST KINGDOM."

IN FALL, WHEN THE TREES \h\h\h\h\h\hARE ABLAZE

\h\hIN EVERY SHADE OF YELLOW AND RED,

THIS COULD BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE IN AMERICA.

HERE, FORESTED HILLS OPEN

INTO ONE-CHURCH VILLAGES \h\h\hAND GORGEOUS LAKES.

THE LARGEST, LAKE WILLOUGHBY, IS SHAPED LIKE A NORDIC FJORD.

FORMED BY GLACIERS

THAT CARVED OUT U-SHAPED VALLEYS AND SPECTACULAR CLIFFS,

\h\hTHE LAKE COVERS NEARLY 1,700 ACRES.

THE NORTHEASTERN FRONTIER

\h\h\h\h\h\hWAS SETTLED LATER THAN OTHER PLACES IN VERMONT,

AND MOST TOWNS HAVE POPULATIONS IN THREE FIGURES.

BUT THE LAND SUSTAINS \h\h\h\hA WAY OF LIFE

THAT HAS LONG SINCE DISAPPEARED FROM MOST PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.

AND YET, THERE ARE DOWNSIDES.

\h\hIN THE KINGDOM, BACK-ROAD TRAVELERS

ARE WARNED TO BEWARE OF MOOSE,

THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMALS \h\hIN THE NORTHERN WOODS.

MOOSE DON’T JUST DENT CARS-- \h\h\h\h\h\hTHEY TOTAL THEM.

FURTHER SOUTH IS THE QUINTESSENTIAL VERMONT TOWN

OF CRAFTSBURY.

IT WAS FOUNDED IN 1788 \h\hBY EBENEZER CRAFTS,

A REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN.

LIKE MANY NEW ENGLAND TOWNS,

\h\h\h\hCRAFTSBURY RETAINS ITS HISTORIC TOWN COMMON--

\hA YANKEE TRADITION FROM COLONIAL TIMES.

BACK THEN A COMMON SPACE \h\hIN THE VILLAGE CENTER

WAS SET ASIDE FOR GRAZING SHEEP AND CATTLE.

WHILE THE DAYS OF FREE RANGING LIVESTOCK ARE GONE,

THE TIDY GREEN COMMONS REMAIN.

IN THE CRISP LIGHT OF AUTUMN,

THE SKIES IN THE NORTHEAST \h\h\h\hKINGDOM SEEM BLUER,

\h\h\hTHE FIELDS GREENER, AND THE TREES EXQUISITE.

EACH FALL, THE FOLIAGE SURROUNDING THE TOWN OF PEACHAM

BECOMES ONE OF THE MOST \h\hPHOTOGRAPHED SCENES

IN NEW ENGLAND.

PEACHAM’S ROLLING HILLS, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hRED BARNS

AND WHITE-STEEPLED CHURCH

HAVE MADE IT THE SETTING \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hETHAN FROME,

WHERE THE RIVERS FLOW NORTH \h\h\h\h\h\hTHE SPITFIRE GRILL.

FIRST SETTLED IN 1776, PEACHAM IS STILL A SMALL TOWN,

COMPLETE WITH AN OLD TOWN STORE, BUILT IN 1842,

THAT STILL DOES A ROARING TRADE.

IT EVEN OFFERS ROOMS FOR RENT.

CLOSE BY IS PEACHAM CEMETERY,

\hFINAL RESTING PLACE OF ITS TOWNSFOLK FOR OVER 150 YEARS.

HERE, IN THE SHADE \h\hOF RED MAPLES,

A GRAVESTONE TELLS \hTHE TRAGIC STORY

OF THREE GENERATIONS OF A VERMONT FAMILY.

ONE SPRING, IN THE 1800s,

A GRANDMOTHER, HER DAUGHTER AND EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GRANDSON

\h\h\h\h\h\hFROZE TO DEATH AS THEY WALKED INTO TOWN.

HARD TO IMAGINE TODAY

\h\h\h\hWHEN STRETCHING OUT ON ALL SIDES OF THE VILLAGE

ARE PEACEFUL OPEN VALLEYS \h\h\h\hAND ENDLESS FARMS.

A LAND BEST DESCRIBED

\h\hBY THE VERMONT POET ROBERT TRISTAM COFFIN.

\h\h\h\hVERMONT’S A PLACE "WHERE BARNS COME PAINTED

RED AS A STRONG MAN’S HEART,

\h\h\h\h\hWHERE STOUT CARTS AND STOUT BOYS IN FRECKLES

ARE HIGHEST FORMS OF ART."

\h\h\hCENTRAL VERMONT HAS LONG BEEN DEFINED

BY ITS MASSIVE GRANITE QUARRIES,

\h\h\h\h\h\hSOURCE OF A NEAR FLAWLESS STONE

\h\h\hUSED IN GRAVESTONES AND BUILDINGS ALL OVER THE WORLD.

FOR OVER A CENTURY, GRANITE WAS THE ROCK

\h\h\hON WHICH THE FORTUNES OF THE NEARBY CITY OF BARRE

ROSE AND FELL.

\h\hEVEN TODAY, BARRE IS AN INDUSTRIAL CITY

BUILT BY GENERATIONS \h\h\hOF IMMIGRANTS.

BARRE’S "ROCK OF AGES" QUARRY

RUNS A QUARTER MILE LONG \h\h\hAND 450 FEET DEEP--

THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD.

IN THE LATE 1800s, GENERATIONS OF EUROPEAN STONECUTTERS

ARRIVED TO WORK IN THE QUARRIES.

IN JUST ONE DECADE, GRANITE BROUGHT SO MANY PEOPLE TO BARRE

THAT THE TOWN’S POPULATION GREW FROM 2,000 TO NEARLY 7,000.

TONS OF GRANITE AND MARBLE \h\h\hFROM ACROSS THE STATE

WAS CARRIED BY RAIL TO WASHINGTON, D.C.,

\h\h\h\h\hFOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL

AND THE SUPREME COURT.

JUST OUTSIDE BARRE IS ONE

OF THE MOST FANTASTIC DISPLAYS OF GRANITE TO BE SEEN.

THE HOPE CEMETERY COVERS \h\h85 ACRES OF MONUMENTS

THAT DATE BACK TO 1895--

\h\hMANY OF THEM CARVED BY MASTER STONECUTTERS

EARLY IN THE 20th CENTURY.

JUST WEST OF BARRE IS VERMONT’S STATE CAPITAL, MONTPELIER.

WITH A POPULATION \hOF JUST 10,000,

IT’S THE SMALLEST IN THE NATION.

THE STATE HOUSE IS KNOWN \hFOR ITS GOLD LEAF DOME,

\h\hBEARING ALOFT A STATUE REPRESENTING AGRICULTURE--

A MONUMENT TO VERMONT’S \h\h\hFARMING INDUSTRY.

THE AREA AROUND THE STATE HOUSE

IS KNOWN FOR ITS VARIED ARCHITECTURAL STYLES--

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hRANGING FROM A GREEK REVIVAL COURTHOUSE

\hTO THE GOTHIC DESIGN OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH

MADE OF VERMONT GRANITE.

\hJUST NORTH OF THE CAPITAL IS THE TOWN OF PLAINFIELD,

HOME TO THE PROGRESSIVE \h\h\hGODDARD COLLEGE.

HERE, IN THE 1960s, THE SCHOOL WAS HOME

TO SOME OF THE MOST VOCAL OPPOSITION TO THE VIETNAM WAR.

IN TIME, THE SCHOOL’S \hBOHEMIAN REPUTATION

TURNED PLAINFIELD INTO A MECCA FOR COMMUNES AND HIPPIES,

SOME OF WHOM ARE STILL HERE.

GODDARD COLLEGE IS BASED ON THE "FREE SCHOOL" CONCEPT--

WHAT THEY DESCRIBE AS

"PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION \hFOR CREATIVE MINDS."

\h\h\hACTOR WILLIAM H. MACY AND PLAYWRIGHT DAVID MAMET

\hARE TWO OF GODDARD’S FREE-THINKING ALUMNI.

MAMET--KNOWN FOR HIS EDGY, \h\h\hRAPID-FIRE DIALOGUE--

IS FRIENDS WITH MACY,

WHO FREQUENTLY ACTS \hIN MAMET’S FILMS.

MOVING SOUTH,

TO THE FERTILE FARMLANDS OF THE MAD RIVER VALLEY,

IS THE GREAT JOSLYN ROUND BARN--

ONE OF THE VERY FEW REMAINING \h\h\hROUND BARNS IN VERMONT.

BASED ON A SHAKER DESIGN, \h\h\hTHE BARNS EPITOMIZE

\hTHE SHAKER RULE OF CRAFTSMANSHIP.

"LET IT BE PLAIN AND SIMPLE, OF GOOD AND SUBSTANTIAL QUALITY,

\h\h\hUNEMBELLISHED BY ANY SUPERFLUITIES

WHICH ADD NOTHING TO ITS GOODNESS OR DURABILITY."

ROUND BARNS ARE THE MODEL \h\h\h\h\hOF PRACTICALITY.

HAY WAS STORED ON THE TOP FLOOR,

\h\h\h\h\hHORSES AND COWS KEPT ON THE MIDDLE FLOOR,

AND THE GROUND LEVEL WAS RESERVED FOR COWS’ MANURE,

WHERE IT COULD BE \hEASILY REMOVED.

\h\h\h\h\h\hALL IN ALL, A MOST PRACTICAL DESIGN

FOR A WORKING FARMER’S BARN.

THIS GENTLY SLOPING LAND \hOF THE MAD RIVER VALLEY

IS THE HEART OF VERMONT’S \h\h\h\hHISTORIC FARMLAND.

\hHERE, SMALL TOWNS AND COVERED BRIDGES

TRACE THE PATH OF VERMONT’S \h\h\h\h\hEARLIEST FARMERS.

\h\h\h\h\hEUROPEAN COLONISTS FIRST SETTLED HERE IN 1790.

THEN FARMS WERE SMALL, YIELDING JUST ENOUGH TO FEED A FAMILY.

OVER TIME THE FARMS GREW, RAISING GRAIN, BEEF AND SHEEP.

\h\hIT’S HARD TO IMAGINE THE PERSEVERANCE IT TOOK

TO FARM HERE.

\h\h\hTHE VALLEY AVERAGES TEN FEET OF SNOW A YEAR,

\h\h\h\hAND HAS THE SHORTEST GROWING SEASON IN THE STATE--

LESS THAN FOUR MONTHS.

AND YET, THROUGHOUT HISTORY,

\h\hVERMONTERS HAVE MADE THEIR LIVING BY FARMING.

TODAY THE MAJOR LANDMARK IN THE SMALL VILLAGE OF WAITSFIELD

\hIS THE GREAT EDDY BRIDGE, WHICH SPANS THE MAD RIVER.

\h\h\h\hTHE OLDEST OPERATING COVERED BRIDGE IN THE STATE.

ALTHOUGH JUST EIGHT PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE OF WAITSFIELD

STILL WORK IN FARMING,

\h\h\h\hTHE LANDSCAPE IS BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED...

ESPECIALLY ALONG ROUTE 100,

\h\hRANKED AS ONE OF THE TEN MOST SCENIC ROADS IN AMERICA.

THE ROAD WINDS NORTH \h\h\hFOR 200 MILES,

ALONG THE RUGGED SPINE OF THE GREEN MOUNTAINS,

ACROSS SOME OF THE BEST SCENERY IN THE STATE.

AND BEST OF ALL THERE ARE \h\h\hNO GARISH BILLBOARDS

TO SPOIL THE VIEW.

ROAD SIGNAGE HAS BEEN BANNED \h\h\h\h\h\hHERE SINCE 1963.

THE GREEN MOUNTAIN RANGE

\h\h\hIS THE MOST PROMINENT NATURAL FEATURE OF VERMONT.

AND THE GREEN MOUNTAIN \h\h\h\hNATIONAL FOREST

COVERS MORE THAN 400,000 ACRES

AND STRETCHES ALMOST THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE STATE.

HERE THE SCENERY RANGES FROM RUGGED WILDERNESS

TO QUIET VILLAGES.

WITHIN THIS LAND ARE THOUSANDS OF HISTORIC SITES

SPANNING THE HISTORY OF VERMONT,

INCLUDING THE EARLY HOMES \h\hOF THE ABENAKI TRIBE,

THE NATIVE AMERICANS WHO SETTLED HERE 12,000 YEARS AGO.

THE FOREST ALSO TRAVELS THROUGH THREE ALPINE SKI AREAS

AND 900 MILES OF TRAILS FOR CROSS COUNTRY SKIING AND HIKING.

HIDDEN BENEATH THE FOREST’S \h\h\hBRILLIANT FALL CANOPY

LIES THE APPROPRIATELY NAMED \h\h\h\h\h\h\h"LONG TRAIL,"

WHICH TRAVELS THE LENGTH \hOF THE GREEN MOUNTAINS.

\h\h\hALSO KNOWN AS VERMONT’S "FOOTPATH IN THE WILDERNESS,"

\h\h\h\h\hIT IS THE OLDEST LONG DISTANCE HIKING TRAIL

IN THE UNITED STATES,

AND UNFOLDS FOR 270 MILES FROM ONE END OF VERMONT TO THE OTHER.

\h\h\h\h\hTHE LONG TRAIL WAS ALSO THE INSPIRATION

FOR THE FAMED APPALACHIAN TRAIL,

\hWHICH LINKS THE MOUNTAINS OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES

FROM MAINE TO GEORGIA.

WEST OF THE LONG TRAIL LIES THE PERFECTLY PRESERVED HOME

OF RUDYARD KIPLING.

HE CALLED IT NAULAKHA.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hTHE JUNGLE BOOK

HERE IN VERMONT.

ALTHOUGH SET IN INDIA,

\h\h\hIT WAS WRITTEN IN THESE GREEN HILLS

\h\h\h\hWHERE HE AND HIS WIFE LIVED HAPPILY FOR FOUR YEARS.

"NAULAKHA" IS A HINDU WORD

\h\h\h\hLOOSELY TRANSLATED AS "A JEWEL BEYOND PRICE."

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hHE DESCRIBED HIS GREEN-SHINGLED FARMHOUSE

AS "THREE MILES FROM ANYWHERE AND WONDERFULLY SELF-CONTAINED."

AND ITS DESIGN, HE WROTE,

"IS LONG AND NARROW TO RESEMBLE A SHIP,

APPEARS TO BE RIDING \h\h\hON A HILLSIDE

\h\h\hLIKE A LITTLE BOAT ON THE FLANK OF A WAVE."

IT HAS BEEN RESTORED BY THE BRITISH LANDMARK TRUST,

\hA FOUNDATION THAT RESTORES HISTORIC BRITISH PROPERTIES--

\h\h\hNOT AS MUSEUMS BUT AS UNCONVENTIONAL GUEST HOMES.

NAULAKHA.

THE PERFECT LITERARY GETAWAY.

HERE IS THE MOOSALAMOO REGION \h\h\h\hOF THE GREEN FOREST,

COVERING 22,000 ACRES \h\h\h\hOF WILDERNESS.

PERCHED IN THE MIDST \h\h\hOF THE FOREST

IS THE BLUEBERRY HILL INN,

A RESTORED LODGE ORIGINALLY \hBUILT BY LOGGERS IN 1813.

45 MILES OF TRAILS STRETCH OUT FROM THE INN INTO THE FOREST.

BUT THE FAVORITE IS THE ROBERT FROST INTERPRETIVE TRAIL.

THE PATH IS A PERFECT MONUMENT TO THE POET,

SURROUNDED BY THE WOODS,

\h\h\hWHICH INSPIRED SO MUCH OF HIS WORK.

AS VISITORS HIKE OR SKI THE ROUTE

THEY CAN STOP TO READ HIS POEMS, POSTED ALONG THE TRAIL.

AMONG THEM: "WHOSE WOODS THESE ARE I THINK I KNOW.

\h\h\h\h\hHIS HOUSE IS IN THE VILLAGE THOUGH.

HE WILL NOT SEE ME \h\hSTOPPING HERE.

TO WATCH HIS WOODS FILL UP WITH SNOW."

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIN 1920, 44-YEAR-OLD ROBERT FROST

MOVED FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE TO VERMONT, AS HE PUT IT,

"TO SEEK A BETTER PLACE TO FARM AND ESPECIALLY GROW APPLES."

APPARENTLY HE FOUND IT.

FOR THE NEXT FOUR DECADES, FROST LIVED MAINLY IN VERMONT,

WRITING MUCH OF HIS VERSE IN THIS LOG CABIN NEAR RIPTON,

\h\hA SMALL TOWN IN THE HEART OF THE GREEN MOUNTAIN FOREST.

HE ENDED HIS PULITZER \hPRIZE-WINNING POEM,

\h\h\h"NEW HAMPSHIRE," WITH THE IRONIC WORDS,

"AT PRESENT I AM LIVING \h\h\h\h\hIN VERMONT."

\h\h\hTODAY, RIPTON, WITH A POPULATION OF JUST 550,

IS STILL A VERY SMALL TOWN, DOMINATED BY MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE,

\hWHICH OWNS THE LAND AND THE LOG CABIN WHERE FROST WORKED.

FROM 1921, WHEN HE FIRST \h\hSPOKE AT THE SCHOOL,

FROST RETURNED EVERY SUMMER \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hFOR 42 YEARS

\h\h\h\h\h\hIN SUPPORT OF THE WRITERS PROGRAM.

ANOTHER ARTIST FOUND HIS VOICE IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT.

THIS LITTLE TOWN OF ARLINGTON \h\h\h\h\hWAS, FOR 14 YEARS,

HOME TO THE FAMED AMERICAN ARTIST NORMAN ROCKWELL.

AFTER LEAVING NEW YORK CITY,

ROCKWELL DESCRIBED MOVING TO VERMONT

AS HAVING "FALLEN INTO UTOPIA."

HERE IN SMALL TOWN VERMONT,

\h\h\hROCKWELL CREATED SOME OF HIS BEST WORK--

\hPORTRAITS WHICH CAPTURED BOTH THE HEROIC AND HUMBLE

IN HUMAN NATURE.

NESTLED IN THE HILLS \hNORTH OF ARLINGTON

\hIS THE CHARMING TOWN OF MANCHESTER CENTER.

\h\h\h\hMANY VISITORS ARE DRAWN TO HILDENE,

\h\h\h\h\hTHE HOME BUILT BY ROBERT TODD LINCOLN--

SON OF PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

IN THE MID 1800s,

\h\hTHE MINERAL WATER OF MANCHESTER VILLAGE

\h\h\h\hBECAME A DRAW FOR WEALTHY TRAVELERS

WHO CAME TO "TAKE THE WATERS"

WHICH WERE THOUGHT TO HAVE \h\h\h\hHEALING PROPERTIES.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMOVING WEST TO THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY

\h\hIS WOODSTOCK, CONSIDERED BY MANY

AS THE PRETTIEST SMALL TOWN \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIN AMERICA.

A LARGE PART OF THE CREDIT \h\h\h\h\h\hFOR THAT TITLE

IS DUE TO THE EFFORTS

\hOF LAURANCE ROCKEFELLER AND HIS WIFE MARY FRENCH.

THERE ARE NO PHONE \h\hOR POWER LINES

TO SPOIL THE VILLAGE LANDSCAPE,

SINCE ROCKEFELLER SAW TO IT THAT THE LINES WERE BURIED.

FOR 60 YEARS THE COUPLE WORKED TO PRESERVE THE TOWN--

DUE IN LARGE PART TO THE WORK

OF MARY’S GRANDFATHER, \h\hFREDERICK BILLINGS.

HE AND HIS WIFE BUILT

\hTHE TOWN’S CENTERPIECE WOODSTOCK INN AND RESORT

IN 1969.

\hAS WELL AS DEEP POCKETS, THE ROCKEFELLERS WERE KNOWN

FOR THEIR COMMITMENT \h\hTO CONSERVATION,

AN INTEREST THAT FIRST TOOK PLACE IN VERMONT.

JUST DOWN THE RIVER \h\hFROM WOODSTOCK

\h\h\h\hIS ONE OF VERMONT’S STUNNING NATURAL WONDERS--

THE QUECHEE GORGE.

THIS DRAMATIC 165-FOOT-HIGH \h\h\h\hAND MILE-LONG GORGE

\h\h\h\h\h\hWAS CREATED SOME 13,000 YEARS AGO BY GLACIERS.

TODAY THERE ARE STUNNING VIEWS FROM THE TRESTLE BRIDGE,

BUILT IN 1911,

AND MILES OF HIKING TRAILS \hWINDING PAST WATERFALLS.

TO THE SOUTH IS THE HISTORIC \h\h\h\hVILLAGE OF GRAFTON.

FOUNDED IN 1763, GRAFTON THRIVED THROUGH THE 1800s

WITH SHEEP FARMS AND MILLS.

IN 1830, ITS POPULATION PEAKED AT NEARLY 1,500 PEOPLE--

AND 10,000 SHEEP.

THE DAYS OF SHEEP FARMING \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hARE GONE,

BUT MANY OF GRAFTON’S HISTORIC BUILDINGS STILL STAND.

THIS CLASSIC FOUR-STORY \hWHITE CLAPBOARD INN,

KNOWN AS "THE OLD TAVERN," \hWAS FIRST BUILT IN 1801.

TODAY IT’S ONE OF THE OLDEST \hOPERATING INNS IN AMERICA.

THE OLD TAVERN THAT ONCE SERVED

STAGECOACH PASSENGERS \h\h\hAND THEIR HORSES

STILL HOSTS GUESTS TODAY.

\h\h\h\hA MAJOR PART OF THE TOWN’S RENAISSANCE

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWAS FINANCED BY INVESTMENT BANKER DEAN MATHEY

WHO ONCE SUMMERED IN THE AREA.

\h\h\h\h\h\hHE CREATED THE WYNDAM FOUNDATION,

\h\h\hDEDICATED TO RESTORING GRAFTON’S HISTORIC BUILDINGS.

BUT THE TOWN IS BEST KNOWN FOR ITS CHEDDAR CHEESE BUSINESS,

WHICH BEGAN IN 1892.

TODAY THE GRAFTON VILLAGE \h\h\h\h\h\hCHEESE COMPANY

MAKES ONE OF THE FINEST CHEDDARS IN THE WORLD.

FAST FORWARD FROM THE 1800s \h\hTO THE ROARING TWENTIES

\h\h\hAND LOOK DOWN AT THE BUCOLIC HOME

OF AUTHOR SINCLAIR LEWIS AND JOURNALIST DOROTHY THOMPSON.

THESE 300 ACRES COMBINED \h\hTHE LAND OF TWO FARMS

INTO A PROPERTY THE COUPLE \hCHRISTENED "TWIN FARMS."

THEY BOUGHT THE LAND IN 1928,

A YEAR AFTER LEWIS’S NOVEL \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWAS PUBLISHED.

THE COUPLE FELL IN LOVE \h\h\h\h\hWITH VERMONT

\h\h\h\h\hAND INVITED THEIR LITERARY FRIENDS TO VISIT.

\h\h\hONE DESCRIBED THE FALL FOLIAGE AS:

"WILDLY, INSANELY, COCK-EYED LOVELY,

\h\hLIKE A COUPLE OF MILLION DRUNKEN RAINBOWS IN A BRAWL."

\h\h\h\hLATER, AFTER THE COUPLE SEPARATED,

DOROTHY WROTE LEWIS THAT TWIN FARMS WAS

"THE BEST EXPRESSION IN LIFE \h\h\h\h\h\h\hOF BOTH OF US--

BEAUTIFUL, HOSPITABLE \hAND UNPRETENTIOUS."

\hOUR FINAL DESTINATION IS THE SMALL HILL TOWN

OF PLYMOUTH NOTCH,

\h\hTHE BIRTHPLACE OF CALVIN COOLIDGE.

HERE, IN 1923, AS VICE PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE

WAS HELPING HIS FATHER \h\h\hHARVEST THE HAY,

HE RECEIVED WORD OF THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT WARREN HARDING.

\h\h\h\hCOOLIDGE WAS IMMEDIATELY SWORN IN

AS THE 30th PRESIDENT \hOF THE UNITED STATES

\hBY HIS FATHER, A NOTARY PUBLIC.

TODAY, THE HILLSIDE FARM \h\hIS AN HISTORIC SITE.

THE PRESIDENT IS BURIED \hIN THE TOWN CEMETERY

WITH SEVEN GENERATIONS \h\h\h\h\hOF COOLIDGES.

WHEN ASKED WHY HE WISHED \h\h\h\h\h\hTO BE BURIED

IN SUCH HUMBLE SURROUNDINGS, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hHE REPLIED,

"WE DRAW OUR PRESIDENTS \h\h\hFROM THE PEOPLE,

I CAME FROM THEM.

\h\h\hI WISH TO BE ONE OF THEM AGAIN."

\h\h\h\h\h"SILENT CAL," AS COOLIDGE WAS KNOWN,

HAD A REPUTATION AS A MAN \h\h\h\hOF VERY FEW WORDS.

BUT AFTER A DEVASTATING FLOOD

\h\h\h\h\hHE GAVE COMFORT TO HIS FELLOW VERMONTERS

\hWITH THESE SIMPLE YET ELOQUENT WORDS:

"IT WAS HERE THAT I FIRST SAW \h\h\h\h\h\hTHE LIGHT OF DAY;

HERE THAT I RECEIVED MY BRIDE; HERE MY DEAD LIE."

\h"I LOVE VERMONT BECAUSE OF HER HILLS AND VALLEYS,

\h\h\hHER SCENERY AND INVIGORATING CLIMATE,

\h\hBUT MOST OF ALL BECAUSE OF HER INDOMITABLE PEOPLE."

AERIAL VERMONT TELLS THE STORY OF THESE INDOMITABLE PEOPLE

WHO FARMED ITS STONY FIELDS,

BRAVED SNOW-COVERED MOUNTAINS \h\h\hTO SETTLE ITS VALLEYS,

AND KEPT THE LAND INTACT.

HERE CONSERVATION OF AMERICA’S EARLIEST LANDSCAPES

BEGAN AND PROSPERED.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hA STATE BEGUN BY THE FIERCE INDEPENDENCE

OF ITS EARLIEST HEROES,

WHOSE SPIRIT INSPIRED \h\h\h\hA PRESIDENT,

\h\h\hAND A POET, WHO’S WORDS BEST DESCRIBE VERMONT’S GIFT:

"I CHOSE THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED AND IT MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE."

\h\h\hAND A POET, WHO’S WORDS BEST DESCRIBE VERMONT’S GIFT: