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1. 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...
2. 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.
3. Eco-Friendly Tiny Houses Tiny houses are compact structures hand built from green building materials. They're so small they're easily moveable and can be quite practical for a single person interested in living a green lifestyle. Tiny houses are designed and built with a sma...
4. Evelyn Saenz: Lensography of a Teacher My passion is teaching and finding ways to teach children in fun, hands-on, creative ways. The unit studies I make on Squidoo reflect my view that learning should be integrated and no skills should be taught in isolation. I believe that each topic s...
5. Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid - 1780 Garner Rix was just 12 when he moved with his father, pregnant mother, two sisters and three brothers from a farm in Connecticut to a log cabin on the banks of the White River, a place that would one day be called Royalton, Vermont. He helped h...
6. Old Vermont Barn The old barn on our farm in Vermont was built by my Great-great grandfather in about 1870. He learned to build from his father and grandfather in a tradition passed down from the first New England settlers. He took those traditions but he applied new...
7. TSL SNOWSHOES: A REVOLUTION IN SNOWSHOEING      Remember when wood and cowhide snowshoes were the norm?  Since those days snowshoe design has gone through more than a few changes - the most significant being the diversion from the universally accepted wood framed snow...
8. Pioneer Valley Events The Pioneer Valley is a region consisting of the three counties in Western Massachusetts through which the Connecticut River passes, and especially those towns that are in the lowlands of the Connecticut River Valley. A group of businessmen intereste...
9. Making Maple Syrup One of my earliest memories is helping my grandfather to tap trees and then collect the maple sap during sugaring season. When I was little there were huge Maple Trees growing on either side of the road. My grandfather explained that the number of b...
10. 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...
11. Vermont Stone Walls Stone walls surround our farm in Vermont. When walking through the woods one day I started to wonder, who built those walls? When Garner Rix returned from Montreal after the Revolutionary War the Town of Royalton gave him the land that we now own. G...
12. Evelyn's Vermont 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 1840's Vermont Farmhouse is surrounded by pastures and hundreds of acres of woods, trails and even a wate...
13. New England Fall Foliage This resource will answer all your questions on planning a New England fall foliage trip. You'll discover when and where to go, what to see, and where to stay. There are many places in the world that experience a magnificent and colorful fall. But&nbs...
14. 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...
15. 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...
16. 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...
17. Exploring New England - Our Honeymoon Road Trip For our honeymoon, my husband and I decided we wanted to travel through New England on a road trip, since neither of us had ever been up that way. This lens is a bit of a scrapbook of the places we went and some of the things we saw. If you're planni...
18. Scrap metel in new england. Copper, Brass, Aluminum, Iron, steel This lens will help you make more money then you ever imagined selling scrap metal. Yes most of the time you can find things here and there that are worth money but if you want to make some real money then make sure you do your homework. Starting wi...
19. Photographs: Bird Pictures and Videos I've been a bird watcher all my life; I feed the birds and enjoy watching tbirds in the garden, in the wild and at the feeder. I love all types of birds and I enjoy taking nature photographs of birds in the wlld. It's a thrill for me whenever I snap...
20. 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...