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Best Place to Time-Travel VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM, Montpelier Not just another history museum, this revamped Vermont-focused institution is modern in its immersive approach. Riffing off the state’s anthem “Freedom and Unity,” it re-creates pivotal environments from the state’s past, including an Abenaki village, the Green Mountain Boys’ Catamount Tavern, and Calvin Coolidge’s summer White […]
Lake Willoughby sits in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, its southern end wedged spectacularly between a pair of shaggy, slouchy mountains that flank the lake like bookends. Mountains have the merit of always adding grandeur to a landscape, and when mixed with a shimmering expanse of water, the whole scene can approach the sublime. The lake nearly […]
Ever since we were little, our dad, hailing from the Green Mountain State, had warned us about avoiding the “tourist traps” along Route 4. The town of Woodstock, he claimed, was “something Disney would have created.” As for Quechee, we weren’t allowed to stop at the import shop Scotland by the Yard, or the gift […]
top of the mountain
A tree that did its’ own thing.
Round barn in fall on route 5 in the NEK
A stop along route 14 in Vermont just after Christmas…
We wish we could take credit for discovering Hen of the Wood, but Food & Wine magazine, the New York Times, and the James Beard Foundation, among others, have already bestowed their highest praise upon executive chef/co-owner Eric Warnstedt. And with good reason: Warnstedt is putting his money where his mouth is when he says […]
Brattleboro, Vermont’s most famous landmark seemed destined to die—but the townspeople had other ideas.
See More: Vermont Landscape Photography: Jon Olsen Photography One recent midwinter day, landscape photographer Jon Olsen found himself at a favorite spot: a narrow country road dominated by pastures just outside Hartford, Vermont’s village center. There, under the late daylight, Olsen parked his truck, strapped on a backpack stocked with lenses and a camera, and […]
covered bridge in VT
