See Yankee‘s travel bargains in Vermont Yankee recommends that you call ahead to confirm dates and times. MAY 1: WOODSTOCK, Opening Day at Billings Farm and Museum. Bring the family for the launch of the museum’s 27th season and celebrate with horse-drawn wagon rides and free ice cream. 802-457-2355; billingsfarm.orgGet Our FREE Yankee Best New […]
Fall foliage colors the hills of southern Vermont.
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Back in 1998, entrepreneurial museum director Thomas Krens created something of an art world sensation when he filled the Guggenheim Museum in New York with 114 motorcycles. The controversial The Art of the Motorcycle prompted some wags to suggest that the bike show had finally fulfilled the circular Frank Lloyd Wright museum’s destiny as a […]
DJ Boyd of Boyd Farm, working on the CSA harvest, early June 2008
Get with gravity and walk downhill. Let your feet take you where you want to go; sometimes a late-afternoon stroll will lead you into a sublime evening. The Unitarian church on Burlington’s Pearl Street is where you turn left–still ambling downhill–to enter the mall, a.k.a. Church Street Marketplace. Here it’s the street life that commands […]
Sometimes, to get to where you really want to be, you have to pass through a needle’s eye. There’s a passageway with just that name on Vermont’s Long Trail, south of Mount Mansfield‘s Forehead. It’s a pair of massive rock slabs, leaning against each other to form a portal barely big enough for a hiker […]
Summer sojourners looking to enjoy Lake Champlain often head for Milton, Vermont’s Sandbar State Park, with its broad beach, safe shallow waters, and convenient location, just a few miles up Route 7 from Burlington. But the more curious among them often wonder just what lies at the other end of that long causeway that swings […]
The first French settlement in Vermont at French Fort Ste Anne
Camping at Lake Champlain in July 2008
Peaceful scene on Lake Champlaign in Burlington, Vermont.
Boiling sap ready to move into the final phase
