Experience the little-known treasures of the Green Mountain State, from the sugar-on-snow festival and Cow Appreciation Day to historic covered bridges.
In 1962 Rachel Carson , revealing the devastation of pesticides , wrote in Silent Spring : “ It was a spring without voices . On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins , catbirds , doves , jays , wrens , and ...
Vermont's natural communities -- its northern hardwood forests, dry oak woodlands, alpine tundra, red maple swamps, bogs, and marshes -- are described in this comprehensive book. Richly illustrated with beautiful...
A year after the eruption and half a world away, Nathaniel Foster, a twenty-nine-year-old veteran of the War of 1812, decided to plant corn in a freshly cleared field. Foster, who was establishing a farm with his new wife, Sarah Leach, ...
This is a call for Vermont to reclaim its soul to return to its rightful status as an independent republic as it once was between 1777 and 1791.
The definitive sourcebook for Vermont facts, figures, people, events, and history
When Baxter's Store burned in September 1931, townspeople were unmoved; Merton Baxter was not a wellloved figure in Marlboro. The story is told that a little girl on her way home with a bag of sugar spilled it onto the muddy road.
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A nine-year veteran commentator on Vermont Public Radio, Averyt shares her experience in this expanded collection of eighty of her Commentary essays.