at the beginning of my trip i knew nothing about brown's trace therefore i had many questions i needed to answer in hopes of answering some of these i decided to take a trip down to the center of town to learn a little something about a complex that has been running for two this time the store has changed a lot varying from what source sold to the structure itself it all started back in eighteen zero seven plenty blackmon first open the store at the time the store was comprised of just one story and for sometimes a way to remember a but we often found out things about our kids from talking to little and she kind of watched out for everyone and it was such a big and still is to this most business looking around the store now you can see the outsides of it still look the same as it might have one hundred years ago after the fire but looking inside you can see that the con of store have on the contrary changed dramatically the owners have even added to deli by the far side of the store we asked the current owner johnson armor what he thought about these changes i think really you know there's been a drastic change you know the last twenty or so years i mean the for the poor that the store really serve does you know the hope of the center and it's sold pretty much everything because people there were no wal mart's really you know thirty years ago on there wasn't home depot so this store had really everything imaginable had hardware had you know  upholstery had brochure ease had animal feed on that really had everything but really with the advent of you know the home depots the wal mart's all the convenience stores the big box stores cropping up everywhere and we really had to you know people started going elsewhere they can get it cheaper on so we really you know the past twenty years ten years really the stores kind of shifted its focus to really you know on the go foods you know deli saw us on hot foods some just much like a few real staple grocery items mill breads you know cereal stuff like that but it's not jam packed full everything we can use to be on the so really you know a glorified old fashioned convenience store now that's what it's become when learning about that aspect of brown's trace i realize that i hadn't fact learned what small family owned businesses were like but i wasn't satisfied i still didn't quite have the bigger picture in the next part of my trip i wanted to take a step back to the residential parts of brown's trace in order to get a sense looking around brown strace i wanted to know what the people felt about the community and what the atmosphere felt like to them when i asked the locals questions like these i realize the majority of them talked about how it has changed  bit and over the twenty years i noticed the traffic is much more it's much busier now than it was twenty twenty some years ago and i'm sure it will last fifteen years  one the the year before we came i think it was just the year before we can maybe two years is when the road was paved it had been dirt to move that t and the two buildings next door which in the church office building and the community center where the jericho high school and right before we came they just moved into ma union so this the high school was here and down the road was not pain and those that was immediately before we came but we heard about those things and the the next part of what i want to know from presence here browns trace was what it must have been like to live in the old times of jericho we didn't have video games i remember when we first got a television there wasn't much to watch so for entertainment here or that have any memories of a cademy for instance being moved from the corner to its present location where the library to make and this may have been what i was waiting for this whole time that's right the history of brown's trace i decided to start looking into the very name of the road because where have you ever seen a road with trees in the place of road or lane it's just not something you see every day another question that i wanted answers to was what the road might have been called or brown's tree give  and that's how they came up with it because i'm used to be the brown school trail where they went from here there and then over time and got to travel more cars sold in order to get some clarification i decided to go to a local there the indians took them to montreal where they were even sold to the british as prisoners at that time they stayed in prison all the way up to seventeen ninety one when america signed the peace treaty with britain at that time though records of the room in the show my trip i don't know exactly when it was first paper but i did find in the history of jericho under the jericho town library that that building that the jericho town librar hand that was actually moved from the corner where it used to set because brown's trace was being widened and so i'm guessing it was probably somewhere around one hundred fifty five that the road was   it's where it's that's today unfortunately my trip had come to an end but my want for knowledge hasn't looking back on the trip i saw that i really had seen the sense of change throughout the road but i had also seen the community and neighborly qualities that truly make this road and vermont in general the way that should be and is and if this community stays the way i've seen it then i think jericho will be heading in the right direction