All posts tagged "vermont"
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11.4KBusiness and LaborThe Vermont Country Store, Nine Surprising Facts
You can’t have missed the catalog for the Vermont Country Store in your mailbox, and you may well have visited one of...
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11.0K2Arts and LeisureSix Historic Buildings With a Clerestory
The clerestory window makes a lot of sense in New England because of the short, short days during the long, long winter....
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11.9K7Politics and MilitaryThe Civilian Conservation Corps, a Young Man’s Adventure
During the depths of the Great Depression, a 17-year-old boy from Warren, R.I., enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He did it...
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9.6KCrime and ScandalA Governor’s Son, a French Monster and the Murder of Schoolteacher Marietta Ball
On July 24, 1874, a Friday, schoolteacher Marietta Ball left her St. Albans, Vt., school at 3:30 in the afternoon. She planned...
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23.3K4Arts and LeisureSix Mid-Century Modern Homes
Though people usually think of the quintessential New England house as a white clapboard farmhouse or Cape, we actually have quite a...
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38.4K8ConnecticutSix Historic One-Room Schoolhouses
Thousands of one-room schoolhouses once educated New England children, some well into the 20th century. Small, utilitarian buildings, they usually lacked plumbing...
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