The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-07-21

only by the summer visitors but by the
agricultural bloc of the valley. whose
members say that the charge is pretty
burned high, but it's worth it.
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There is string of picturesque villages
along this valley until it becomes. ut
Jamaica. a regular canyon which resists
negotiation by the highway, although the
railroad, needing less space. manages to
cling to the sides of the gorge or contest
the bed of the stream with the rushing
water. Every little while a brook comes
down from the adjacent hills into the
river, and at one of these. in Jamaica.
there is a magnificent cascade 120 feet
high. The scenery in and around
Townshend was compared by Theodore
Robinson to that of the Hartz noun
-ains. and the Nomad is quite sure that
nothing in Germany can surpass it in
Dicturesqueness or beauty. This is true.
too. of the exquisite village of Newfane,
which is the county seat of Windham
county. and which IS dignited and dis
tinguiShed by one of the most beautiful
court houses in New England most
'ovely adaptation of the classic motive TO
the uses Of a public building in an agri-
cultural region. Its white pillars. its
graceful lines, rising among the green
masses Of the naples, form a quite Won
(erful picture The village of Jamaica
: remarkable for its situation en- little
plain at the very bottom of a deep bowl
II the hills.
Out of this rural valley many distin-
guiShed men have gone, such as Alphonso
raft father of President Taft Roswell
Field. the father of Eugene Field Viii
lam Morris Hunt. and others. VIII any
norel so great be born there? No doubt
but the old Yankees are dying out Even
n the river valley there are deserted
arms and in the mountains. which look
Town upon the valley there are whole
villages like West Jamaica. without a
wing inhabitant. The farms are grow
NC up to woods. Except, to be sure in
hose spots which are beginning to at
ract the rich men of New York who
NY them for summer homes. To the
torthward of the towns of the valley
here is strip Of country, mostly in the
-OWnShp of Peru. which IS apparently
repeating the history Of Cornish and
Dublin in New Hampshire and OF Yer
nonts Manchester. Lying along the
oUthern slope of Bromley mountain.
his strip commands a broad and lovely
view Of the mountains of southern Yer
mont with Stratton mountain fulfilling
he same commanding function that AS
utney performs for Cornish The view.
indeed. is much more extensive, much
aore imposing, than anything in Cor
niSh. Here, all the old farm houses
nave been more or less skilfully meta
nQrphOSed into summer residences And
the air What lot of it. and how
amazingly sweet it is Across this little
Peruvian belt runs that wonderful
tlioroughfare for mountain loving feet.
Che Long Trail, which leads over the
Green mountain SUBMITS. clear down
nt0 the Hoosac range This region is. in
The main, a wild and forest country.
trough which the black bears Still wan
Ter. and where the deer are plentiful 4
.oneiy, yet CHEEKY, region, dotted with
axes which seem to prefer the high alti-
tudes: a vacation land of great attrac-
5ions. but now, largely for transportation
reasons, attracting very few people from
Boston, but a great many from New
York