Vermont has some pretty old and idiotic laws but my personal favorite is the last one on the list. But as they say, “the law is the law”. Here we go: Women must get permission […]
It’s funny how you can live in Vermont all your life and discover new places just about any day. As annual members of Shelburne Museum, you are entitled to a free tour of the Webb […]
Will That Be One Hump or Two? The last thing anyone driving along scenic Route 7 in Ferrisburgh, VT. would expect to see is a camel. That’s right a camel…with two humps. The Bactrian camel, […]
It’s getting close to fall foliage season in Vermont With all the rain we had this summer, I have to wonder how that will affect the fall colors this year. As most of us already […]
With a soggy summer coming to a somewhat brighter conclusion, the colors of autumn are just around the corner. Two things that signal the upcoming Vermont foliage season are country fairs and corn fields with […]
Thankfully, the rain held off during a fantastic Elton John concert at the Essex Junction fairgrounds on July 21. 2008. The concert started off with an old classic, Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding and […]
Has anyone seen any paperboys (or girls) delivering daily newspapers these days? As a kid growing up in Newport, VT, back in the 1960’s and 70’s, it was quite a big deal to have a […]
Island Pond, also known as Brighton, is a quiet little town in the far north reaches of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Formerly a bustling railroad town with a busy main street, lumberyards and an Ethan Allen […]
There aren’t many real, native Vermonters living there. People from the Northeast Kingdom vacation “way down” in Burlington. Ethan Allen’s monument is here but he was a flatlander. Because Phish’s last concert was in Coventry. […]
BoingBoing.net has just added a feature to their extremely popular blog for a page posted on Vermonter.com. In case you missed it, the article is Timothy Clark Smith of Vermont who was so concerned about […]