The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-09-19
MANCHESTER AS SEEN
BY ENGLISH WRITER
MurieI Harris In Manchester Guard
ian Gives Impressions of
SD Vermont Resort

You may thinkoi It Typographical to
approach Manchester by way OF the
berkshire mountains, with Chester TO
the right of il and Whitehall almost
due north. Knight gofarther and add
taat not far from Manchester is Troy,
while Greenwich and Cambridge TANK
II on the southeast Nor is this merely
the license common to the chool-
boys examination PAPER For Man
chester, Vt, is Manchester, Vermont,
VIII CHI IS to say that II is little New
England town situated In the heart OF
the Green Mountains, from which Yer.
Mont Is christened / do not know
what Manchester would think OF Man
chester, VI. It is a little green and
white town, not by any means a coun'
try cousin. or even provincial rather
like a smart little girl with a white
ttarched frock and a green sash and
a rather shiny face. ! should imagine
that 1t never has any smoke but the
smoke from wood fires, The one big
hotel charges equally big prices, but
also offers the hospitality, always sur
prising to the European of free wash
es and free seatngs note paper and
anything short OF food to the casual
passer by who haSAnp, intention OF
stopping there And | must not for
Get the monument In common with
many New England towns, Manchester
Verihtntesha aSmonument 1T is q
rather miscellaitous monumenL for in
This western cohltinent there is not
thstlasishness inkiled and wo1nded
which obtains inNthe Old World and
sometimes the most willing towns are
hard put to it. not to erect the monu'
ment but TO provide material Tor the
inscription IL has therefore been
found convenent-and in Manchester
VT. as elsewhere--to promote monu
ments on a community basis and to
commemorate generally any soldiers OF
any of the American wars, In this
way history is eked out to go round
fairly and the town feels itself a
town agaln--or is II an incorporated
village?
Manchester, Vt, also differs from
what II would cal Manchester Eng, In
the possession of a real oldest inhab
tant. This is a kind man of type
generally only seen in portraits OF I'm.
Gle Sam That is to say he Is the Ions
and lean type which most Americans
are not, and he really has goatee
tnd can spit a great distance, He has
adapted himself extraordinarily well
to modern conditions, in that he sits
on his "froWt porch with his legs on
the railing in the true old style while
he gives modern advice to motorists
and tells them not to try to get ia
Wallngford by way of Peru, but to
keep right on through East Dorset
This advice is more valuable than
might at first sight appear since the
broad way which leads to destruction
1t only gees on for about half a mile
is more seductive to motorists with
all It's macadamIzed pretensons, than
is what is called a dirt road-a good
hardy. willing little road which, il
you follow il, will take you up to
Canada
Manchester VT Is like many New
England towns except that II is more
beautifully situated. | saw scarlet
tanager Just before reaching II, and a
yellow oriole shortly after leaving &C.
These gaily eolored birds have an
almost tropical Suggestion and it is