I didn’t know, the first time I stood on the bank of the Browns River with a camera, that I was standing at the site of at least three different mills. Before the building I was photographing ever existed, Anson Field Sr. ran a cabinet shop and starch mill on this same spot, sometime before […]

The Midway Diner, Rutland, VT For more than sixty years, the Midway Diner on South Main Street in Rutland was the kind of place that didn’t need to advertise. The truck drivers knew it. The deer hunters knew it. The night shift workers knew it. And when the bars closed at midnight, there was a […]

There’s a stone tower on the crest of Ethan Allen Park in Burlington, Vermont that most people drive past without knowing it exists. Built in 1905 and standing 30 feet tall on one of the highest points in the city, the Ethan Allen Tower was constructed to honor the man who arguably did more than […]

On August 16, 1777, a 59-year-old New Hampshire general stood before a force of Vermont militia volunteers and delivered one of the most galvanizing lines in American military history. “There are the Red Coats; they will be ours or tonight Molly Stark sleeps a widow.” What happened next changed the entire Revolutionary War. British General […]

The Mount Orne Covered Bridge in Lunenburg has been spanning the Connecticut River since 1911 — connecting Vermont to New Hampshire at a point where the river runs wide and cold through the Northeast Kingdom. At 266 feet, it’s one of the longest covered wooden bridges in New England, and one of only a handful […]