“On a brisk autumn day, the view from the sprawling porch of the mansion at the center of the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, Vermont, is of ancient, rolling hills flush with the changing seasons. Sugar maples flare red, beeches are butter-yellow, and centuries-old hemlocks hold fast to thick green canopies. Today the park […]
Burlington, Vermont Burlington developed along the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, a natural corridor linking the interior of North America with the St. Lawrence River and the Atlantic world. The lake has long served as a geographic boundary and transportation route, first for Indigenous communities including the Abenaki and Mohawk, and later for European explorers […]