My father commuted to Highgate Springs every week from New York City. In 1933 he and my mother bought the property with my aunt and her husband, and until 1944 it was called the Tyler Wriston Place. Ted and Pixley grew up on the resort. I've spent almost every summer there since. Encompassing 165 acres on the shores of Lake Champlain near the mouth of the Missisquoi River, the resort offers tennis courts, a petting farm, indoor and outdoor pools and a sports center.
Families return to the resort year after year.
Children come back as adults with their children, and parents return as grandparents. Pixley, who lived abroad for a number of years in places as far-flung as southeast Asia and Venezuela, eventually returned to Vermont. You're bound to a place like this. I would have been so surprised to know that I would end up here, but now, actually, I'm not surprised at all. For many years he has maintained a trial practice in St. Albans, while gradually becoming more and more involved with the resort.