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2002
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In a beautiful companion volume to his classic Vermont People and People of the Great Plains, Peter Millers VERMONT FARM WOMEN puts faces and stories to these statistics and shows that this small rural state is setting a national trend. Within the group of forty-four Vermont farm women profiled in these pages, tremendous variety exists among the crops they grow and harvest, the animals they breed and raise, and the products they create. Yet all...
4) Mud season
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2013
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In self-deprecating and hilarious fashion, Mud Season chronicles Stimson’s transition from city life to rickety Vermont farmhouse. When she decides she wants to own and operate the old-fashioned village store in idyllic Dorset, pop. 2,036, one of the oldest continually operating country stores in the country, she learns the hard way that “improvements” are not always welcomed warmly by folks who like things just fine the way they’d always...
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c2013
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"A bustling lumber and trading port on the shores of Lake Champlain founded by Ethan and Ira Allen in the 1780s became the city of Burlington in 1865. With a current population of almost 43,000 residents, Burlington is still Vermont's 'Queen City,' consistently nationally ranked for quality of life and as a great place to both raise a family and to retire. It is not just the beautiful scenery and endlessly interesting weather that makes Burlington...
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c2006
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The inside story of how Vermont transformed itself from a rural, Republican outpost into the state of Howard Dean, Jim Jeffords, Pat Leahy, and Bernie Sanders. A veteran reporter Graf speaks out about his more than 25 years of writing about the Green Mountain state and its remarkable transformation from the most reliably Republican state in the nation to a bastion of progressivism.
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2001
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Contains three essays in which John Elder presents his vision of wilderness and sustainability in Vermont, chronicles his evolution as a reader, and describes his family's adventure in sugaring, and includes a profile of Elder as a teacher and naturalist.
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c2013
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"This book tells, for the first time, the life story of William Marsh, a little-known but intriguing Revolutionary figure. One of the founders of Vermont and later, a Loyalist, Marsh faced political challenges and strife, violence, a long exile away from his family, and after the war, years of rebuilding and securing his children's futures in a rapidly changing world" -- Back cover.
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c2006
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Major General Lewis A. Grant. . .organized the Fifth Vermont in 1861 and led the First Vermont Brigade from February 1863 to June 1865. He participated in 22 battles; most notable were Savage's Station in 1862, Marye's Heights and Bank's Ford in 1863, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and Cedar Creek in 1864, and the breakthrough of the Confederate lines in 1865. He was selected by General Meade to lead the brigade to suppress the Draft Riots...
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c2011
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Burlington : a sense of place is a visual tour through the four seasons in one of the most beautiful and livable cities in the world. Throughout the years, I have photographed the city in many ways: from the air, water, and land. Some of these photographs were taken on assignment for different magazines, but most were taken while roaming around Burlington looking for new angles and perspectives.
The presence of Lake Champlain has a huge influence...
