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The Best Lenses About Vermont 

Industrial Waste in the Frog Pond

Are Vernal Pools in remote rural areas of Vermont being destroyed by industrial waste? Come on a walk in the early spring. Walk through the cold wet mud and try not to slip on the remaining spots of ice as we go on a hunt for frog eggs and discover s...

Building Bridges Unit Study

Garner Rix and his family moved from Connecticut to Vermont in 1780 by oxcart. During his captivity he walked to Montreal and back. What was it like to travel in the 18th Century? There were few roads and even fewer bridges. The bridges over streams...

Wardsboro 4th of July

This small Vermont town fair began back in 1949 when community members were brainstorming ideas to raise money and has turned into a celebration that brings people back year after year. Some people look forward to building floats and others watchi...

Phish

Phish's Inception (1983) - Trey, majoring in philosophy, Fish, studying chemical engineering, and Mike, with a major in electrical engineering, are freshmen at the University of Vermont; Jeff Holdsworth, also an EE major, is a sophomore there. Trey h...

Historic Vermont Barns

Growing up on a working dairy farm in Vermont, I spent a large portion of my time in the barn, both working and playing. The barn is the center of the business of farming. For a child, the barn holds the promise of places to hide, animals to grow wi...

Vermont History 

18th Century Threshing

Photo Credit: Threshing with hand flails on Flickr, Creative Commons. This lens is a continuation of the Garner Rix Unit Study Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid. After returning to Royalton, Garner was given a section of land that had been confiscated...

Vermont Living 

Baby Lamb's First Drink

It is spring. The pastures are green and lambing season is upon us. The baby lamb has just been born and the mother ewe is carefully looking after her baby. With beautiful illustrations and simple words, Beverley Randall tells the tale of a baby lam...

Tasha Tudor

 It seems that Tasha Tudor has always known exactly how she wanted to live. From the time she was a little girl, she dreamed of living on a secluded farm where she could surround herself with a garden and a slew of household pets and barnyard an...

Lumberjack Cookies

One summer I had the privilege of living with my Grandmother, an incredible cook, who taught me how to bake Lumberjack Cookies. She was famous for her skills at baking and often won the Vermont State Grange baking contest. This is the recipe that she...

Vermont Arts 

Arts, Crafts, Music

Phish

It's shaping up to be the best tours in years for phish fans, with even more dates for fall 2009. Phish tore it up at the Hampton Coliseum in VA, then two amazing nights at Bonnaroo Music Festival and dates across the USA. Now fans are all anxiou...

Famous Vermonters 

Wilson A. Bentley - The Snowflake Man

" I wouldn't trade places with Henry Ford or John Rockefeller for all their millions! And I wouldn't change places with a king: not for all his power and glory. I have my snowflakes!" - Wilson A. Bentley, Jericho, Vermont (1865-1931) "No two snowflak...

Archer Mayor

Archer Mayor's series of Joe Gunther novels are set in Brattleboro, Vermont.  I decided, after having read about a half dozen of these books, that I really wanted to see Brattleboro.  So --  ROAD TRIP!!  Yep, packed up the car, to...

Vermont Travel 

Come Visit Vermont

In a couple of weeks I will be making the long drive from Miami up the east coast of the United States to my home in Vermont. Vermont is the place that my heart longs for. No matter where I travel it always calls to me. If you have not been there ye...

Things to do in Vermont

And Green Everything Else State

Brandon, Vermont: A Hidden Treasure

Brandon, Vermont is a beautiful small town with great people, great beauty, and great art. This is a very community oriented town that always has something going on. For a small town, there is much more to see and do in Brandon than you would think.

Colchester, Vermont

I grew up in Colchester, Vermont. Just because I'm now among the flatlanders of Massachusetts doesn't diminish my love for my hometown! I will be adding information to this page frequently, so check back. And let me know if I left anything out!

Burlington, Vermont

Burlington is a vibrant, exciting city! I will be adding information here frequently, so check back. Also, feel free to let me know if there is information that should appear on this page.

Vermont Nature 

Bluebirds of the Meadow

Summer nears and the bluebirds start nesting along the fenceline. The children are fascinated with the way they fly back and forth to build their nests. They become the focus of our next Unit Study, Bluebirds of the Meadow. As your little bluebirds...

Adopt a Plant in Vermont

Hello Vermont, Spring is coming soon...... so get ready to greet those seedlings that will be coming up from the ground to meet you. Try this Squidoo thing as a way to share what you see and what you know, and love.

Wild Edible Foods of Vermont

Land was expensive and wild game was becoming scarce in Connecticut when Daniel and Rebecca Rix decided to move their family to the wilderness of what would one day be called Vermont. With a family of six children and one on the way they packed up wh...

Woodchucks Under the Porch

Woodchucks chuck wood and Groundhogs determine the coming of spring. They eat your garden, dig holes under the porch but look adorable when they are first born and start to venture out of their dens. Watching the woodchuck babies venturing out from...

Apple Trees and Apple Blossoms Unit Study

When Garner Rix moved with his family to Vermont in 1780 he brought apple seeds with him. He carefully planted those seeds which grew into trees and produced apple blossoms in Springtime and bushels of apples in the fall. It has been 200 years since...

Vermont Business and Products 

The Best Vermont Products Ever

Vermont is a beautiful state! From maple syrup to bright red apples, Vermont produces the best!

Made in USA wooden toys from Montgomery Schoolhouse

Difficult mission to find quality and safe toys, not made in China or other countries where safety rules and child labor laws are lacking. Montgomery Schoolhouse is an American company that offer MADE IN USA toys. Wooden trains, blocks, memory games,...

Dobush Farm - Vermont Horse Training & Boarding

Dobush Farm is as close to heaven on earth as a horse and rider can get. Located in Southern Vermont, on the outskirts of Springfield, Dobush Farm lies snuggled up close to Okemo in the Green Mountains. The century-plus farm is surrounded by old past...

Evelyn's Bed and Breakfast

Our home in Vermont is a big old Vermont farmhouse and the land that it sits on has been in the family since the town was founded. This historic 1850's Vermont Farmhouse is surrounded by pastures and hundreds of acres of woods, trails and even a wate...

Unique Vermont 

Vermont Secession Movement

Many do not know that from 1777 to 1791, Vermont was actually it's own country, separate from the newly formed United States of America. Many in the state believe that it's time for a Second Vermont Republic. This lens aims to explore the reasons, up...