Scenes from Central and Eastern Vermont
We did a four-mile hike at Little River State Park in Waterbury, Vt., which featured the remains of an 1800s farming community. For the most part, all that was left of the town were cellars, …
Tag: Vermont
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
In 1871, Horace Fairbanks presented the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum to the town of St. Johnsbury, Vt. Two years later, he added an Art Gallery to the main building. This is a beautiful French Second Empire …
Architecture / Art / Flowers / Museums
The Shelburne Museum, Part 3
This is our third and last post on the Shelburne Museum (see Part 1 and Part 2). The parents of the Museum’s founder were collectors of French Impressionist masterpieces. It is amusing to think how …
Architecture / Art / History / Museums
The Shelburne Museum, Part 2
Continuing on with our tour of the crazy-fabulous Shelburne Museum (see here for Part 1), we came up the Pet Friendly The Art of Stephen Huneck exhibit. As we walked in I thought, “something about …
The Shelburne Museum, Part 1
The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt., almost defies description. It is certainly not what you’d expect in the traditional sense of a “museum.” Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960) was a pioneering collector of American folk art. …
Dog Chapel, Dog Mountain, and the Stephen Huneck Gallery
Stephen Huneck was a self-taught American artist known for wood carving, furniture making, painting, and writing children’s books. Over his lifetime, he wrote 10 books inspired by his black Lab, Sally, all illustrated with his …
Scenes from Western Vermont
Wilson Alwyn Bentley (1865–1931) was an American farmer known for his photography, but not of the usual subjects. Instead, he was the first person to take detailed photographs of snowflakes and record their features. He …
“Sun to Cheese” Tour at Shelburne Farms
Doug and I did a two-hour “Sun to Cheese” tour at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, Vt. The idea behind the tour is that they show you the process of making their cheddar cheese: growing the …
Wilson Castle
Wilson Castle is truly a castle in Vermont –– it has a turret and a parapet and a coat of arms –– but the structure today is a shell of its former self. Traces of …
Hildene, the Lincoln Family Home
Hildene bill itself as “the Lincoln Family Home” – no, not that Lincoln, but his eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, and this home in Manchester, Vt., wasn’t even built …