University of Vermont

We hope this book will help Vermont residents select trees, shrubs, vines, or woody ground cover plants to serve their landscape needs and interests.

""By the Wand of Some Magician" addresses the severe impact of railroad technology upon its arrival into Vermont in the mid-nineteenth century that introduced an unprepared, rural population to the effects of modernity. It is conveyed through the debates that legislators had following the destruction of their statehouse in 1857 when they considered various factors able to influence their decision in whether to relocate the capital to someplace other...

Includes history of the cemetery, layout, flora, statistical analysis, cultural trends, gravestone materials, headstone and monument types, headstone symbols, headstone manufacturers, as well as biographical profiles of: Allen family (and information on the Ethan Allen monument), George F. Edmunds, John Ellsworth Goodrich, Commander Jonas Hannibal Holden, Buffalo Soldier Sgt. George Osborne, Edward John Phelps, Frank Oscar Sinclair, and Samuel White...

"The Most Costly Journey (El viaje más caro) is a collaboration between the Open Door Clinic, Vermont Folklife Center, UVM Extension Bridges to Health, UVM Anthropology, and Marek Bennett's Comics Workshop. [It] is an ethnographic cartooning project that employs collaborative storytelling as a tool to mitigate loneliness, isolation, and despair among Latin American migrant farm workers on Vermont dairy farms."--Open Door Clinic website: https://opendoormidd.org/most-costly-journey/...