The operative word is family. For half a century the Tyler Place has prided itself on catering to children. In the morning, children are whisked away by teen-age counselors for group activities with other kids their age. And the formula works. It's been working ever since the late Edward Tyler and his wife, Judy, bought the place.
Counselors walk with youngsters as some parents, left, ride by on bicycles.
Those were the publishing friends Edward and Judy invited to Highgate Springs from New York City where they lived. It was already a summer resort of sorts, a place where families from Enosburg Falls came to camp in the late 1800s as the Tylers had, arriving by horse and wagon and setting up spacious tents with wooden floors for long stays along Shipyard Bay. In 1945, they bought a nearby inn built in 1834 and turned the place into a resort. Four years later, the Tylers bought out the Wristons' share and changed the name to the Tyler Place. Judy, known as Mrs. T, developed and maintained that philosophy.