While grabbing a bite to eat in the small central-Vermont town of Barre some 25 years ago, a waitress told my wife, Dorothy, and me about an unusual local attraction–the Hope Cemetery.

Now, I normally don't consider cemeteries a tourist attraction. But as we soon found out, a cemetery. Read the rest of this entry »

During a vacation in New England, my wife and I drove to Jericho, Vermont to visit a museum honoring the town's favorite son, Wilson Bentley, the man who discovered that no two snowflakes are alike. Read the rest of this entry »

Poking around in country stores was a highlight of our recent trip through Vermont, and my husband, Myles, and I found the granddaddy of them all in tiny Weston–the Vermont Country Store, established in 1946. Read the rest of this entry »

While I was driving through the town of Manchester, Vermont last summer, a quaint house sporting a salmon weather vane and a hand-carved fish over the doorway caught my eye. Read the rest of this entry »

The scenic Northeast Kingdom of Vermont is full of backroads surprises, like the Haskell Free Library and Opera House in Derby Line. It straddles the U.S./Canada border, so you can actually stand in two countries at the same time! Read the rest of this entry »

The Old Round Church in Richmond, Vermont is a lovely landmark and may have been the first community church in the country. Representatives of five Protestant congregations built the structure as a community house of worship in 1812-13. Legend has it that 17 men worked on it–one for each of the 16 sides, plus one for the belfry.