The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-04-26
VERMONT BEAUTIFUL
No Place in America Holds Amy More
Charm or Gives More Joy to
Summer Visitors

The following article which gives q
fine pen picture of Vermont scenery
Is reproduced from Winders Travel
Magazine:
Everyone has seen, or at least
, heard about the cold moss-covered
bucket that hung in the WE'LL" am
sure. But how about the "old moss
covered" bridges that span the little
streams of hilly Vermont? They are
the quaintest, dearest old things i'm
aginable, and are always set in the
most picturesque places.
can honestly say that no place in
all America holds any more charm,
or gives more joy, or comfort, OF
shows and more surprises for the
summer visitor than does Vermont,
which derives its name from the
French for Green. Mountains-"Verd
Mont'-while- the English translation
is applied to the hills. A recent COM
pilation gives the state $50 lakes,
ponds and streams; it is literally a
band of "little rivers" There is no
other region in the United States with
an area of less than 10000 square
miles that contains SO many streams
and lakes; these with it's mountains
make Vermont land of wonderfully
varied scenery.
The lovely Green Mountains cast
the spell of their compelling charm,
while the incomparativcly attractive
towns and quiet hamlcts speak cf
"the cool sequestered vale of life"
The mountains are verdure-clad to
their cloud-wreathed SUBMITS, which
the valleys spread away in wide
sweeping meadows, threaded by a
silvery brook or a quiet river, and
down the New Hampshire bordcrlinc
flows the stately Connecticut, now in
broad and gentle course through
green pastures, now narrowing into
bluff-lined gorges where the waters
tumble down boulder-lined bed and
break into ripping rapids over rocky
lodges.
1t is told up in that state, with all
due reverence, that when God had
finished making America he gathered
the waste and leftover material and
dumped it all in heap up near the
Canadian line. To prove this the
Vermont people say that it was an
easy matter for the Almighty to
spread out the broad prairies, and to
pile the mountains one on top of an
other; to build rugged coast line
and to smooth out the sandy beaches,
but that it required a Master Hand
to draw from the best of all and, so
artistically place and prepare them in
so small space as they are in Ver-
mont.
There are no grand canons, but
there are multitude of miniatures:
there are no boundless expanse of
prairies, but there are fertile fields
and meadows; there is no mighty Nj
agara but there are many hundreds
of rivals in beauty and genius of crea-
ton, where all around stand noun
tains yelled in mists; there are no sky
ever snow covered peaks,
but there are myriads of accessible
and ever-verdant mountain tops
very few, if any, reach beyond the
timber line.
The landscape holds the attention
by reason of its merit as a thing of
beauty-not because of its magni-
tude or awful grandeur, as do some
of Americas natural wonders.
Everything is so different from
every other place. The quaint old
houses, the queer old wagons, the
funny fences, the greenest grass and
verdure you ever saw, the hills-and
| do believe there is not an acre of
actually level ground in the state.
Truly, many of the farms of northern
Vermont are of the upright type;
that is, the hills are so steep that
farming is done under trying condi-
tons. There is a Observation-Disclosures
story of Vermonter who fell out of
his corn field and broke his arm.
In fact, the whole state possesses
natural beauty. There the
skies are swept by cloud effects which
are magnificent, and the blue noun
tain peaks form incompatible dis
tances. The hillsides, strewn with
boulders, and mottled with granite
lodges, interspersed with juniper and
sweetbriar, the pine groves and birch
knolls, the little spots of fertile clear
ings and the numerous pretty villag-
es, more often in strings than other
wise. with central town and a
north and south annex, or maybe
east and west, as for instance, Shell
don, Sheldon Station, Sheldon
Springs, East Sheldon, and North
Sheldon. The villages are SO close