VTTV's The Visitors Guide to Southern Vermont - Dover Forge & OMT
Welcome Dover Forge Restaurant and OMT, a popular local favorite located in West Dover, VT, 2 miles south of Mount Snow. Dover Forge is known for its rustic ambiance and for casual dining that includes seasonally inspired cuisine and creative specials that are local, fresh and always affordable. Dover Forge and OMT now specialize and fun & affordable weddings and can bring the BBQ to you with their full service catering. Learn more at doverforge.com.
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VTTV's The Visitor's Guide to Southern Vermont - Vermont Shepherd
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281 Patch Farm Road
Putney, Vermont 05346
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Vermont Shepherd cheeses are the oldest and most well known of the country’s sheep and mixed milk cheeses. David and Yesenia and their family pasture and milk the sheep, make and age the cheese on our 250 acre farm in Westminster West, Vermont. Vermont Shepherd cheeses are descended from a variety of Pyrenees mountain cheeses, which is fitting because a large half of our family is Spanish. The cheese has won awards for Best Farmhouse Cheese in the country and Best of Show in the American Cheese Society’s annual competition since 1993. Today our family makes cheese in small, 10 to 30 wheel batches. Vermont Shepherd has been featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, Food and Wine, Esquire, and more.
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Annette Spaulding presents petroglyph find at the Vermont History Museum
In the spring of 1909, the completion of a new hydro-electric dam in Vernon created at 28 mile long lake, from Vermont's southern boarder with Massachusetts to Bellows Falls, as waters began to back up and subsume much of the river-adjacent countryside. On average, the water level rose 30 feet and eventually flooded more than 150 farms. Among the lands subsumed by permanent flood waters were a series of petroglyphs sites near the confluence of the West River and Connecticut River dating from a precolonial epoch, in the lands now known as Brattleboro, Vermont.
In August of 2015, after a 30-year search, underwater explorer Annette Spaulding found one of the petroglyph sites, subsumed in 1909 and unseen by persons for over a century.
In March of 2016, Annette presented her finding to a Vermont Historical Society brown bag lunch at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. BCTV and the Brattleboro Historical Society were on hand to record the lecture.
Hogback Mountain - Marlboro, Vermont (E-0001)
Checking the 100-mile, scenic view of Hogback Mountain in Vermont
The Visitors Guide to Southern Vermont - Summer 2017 Title Sequence
Welcome to The Visitors Guide to Southern Vermont! Day-trip with your hosts, Rebecca Duncan and Taryn Lawrence, as they visit unique attractions throughout southern Vermont! The Visitors Guide airs 7 days a week on ROKU, Duncan Cable TV (Wilmington & Dover, VT) and Burlington Telecom. vermonttelevision.com
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The Visitor's Guide to Southern Vermont - Bennington Center for The Arts
The Bennington Center for the Arts is a non-profit full-spectrum art center built by local philanthropist Bruce Laumeister and wife Elizabeth Small. The doors opened in 1994 onto two gallery spaces and a 300 seat theater. Much of the artwork that that couple has collected over the years from galleries around the country hangs in the galleries and stairwells when temporary exhibits are not on display.
Paintings and bronzes of and by Native Americans dominated the collection in the beginning, along with a very large collection of Navajo rugs, pots, kachinas and jewelry but many exceptional paintings from the fifteen Art of the Animal Kingdom exhibitions have been added to that collection and are often on display as well. These include artwork by such notable artists as Bob Kuhn, Richard Schmid, Charles Frace, Carl Brenders, Morten Solberg and Manfred Schatz. In 1997 an additional two galleries and an executive boardroom were added. 2003 marked the addition of The Covered Bridge Museum, paying homage to these structures throughout recent history but specifically in Vermont where to this day there are 104 working covered bridges. In 2008 a final wing consisting of three more galleries, two workshop spaces, an artist apartment and administrative offices was officially opened.
Since its opening The Bennington has been very fortunate in bringing to the Galleries some of the finest exhibitions in the country, starting with the Society of Animal Artist annual show our first fall. The organizations we have hosted include the Plein Air Painters of America, the American Watercolor Society, the New England Watercolor Society, the Allied Artists of America, the American Academy of Women Artists, the Pastel Society of America, Arts for the Parks and additional shows by SAA. We have also exhibited a one-man show for Richard Schmid and we have curated many of our own shows annually including Art of the Animal Kingdom, Impressions of New England, Artists for the New Century (with the help of Southwest Art, American Art Collector, Art of the West and Fine Art Connoisseur), American Artists Abroad and our newest annual show, the Laumeister Fine Art Competition. The Center has also been the only East coast venue to host the California Art Club.
The goal of The Bennington is to bring world-class art to the residents and visitors of New England and with the support of the art community we feel we are achieving this goal.
The Visitor's Guide to Southern Vermont - Bennington Battle Monument
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How John and Patty Reagan put their diner -- and their community -- back together again after Tropical Storm Irene.
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Take 90 seconds to enjoy this virtual tour of the Harley-Davidson Museum located up in beautiful Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The history of this amazing company will enlighten and entertain everyone!
The Bennington Museum
Located in the historically and culturally rich town of Bennington, VT, the Bennington Museum preserves and interprets the rich heritage of southern VT and the surrounding regions.
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Vermont | Wikipedia audio article
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Vermont
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Vermont ( (listen)) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the U.S. states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Vermont is the second-smallest by population and the sixth-smallest by area of the 50 U.S. states. The state capital is Montpelier, the least populous state capital in the United States. The most populous city, Burlington, is the least populous city to be the most populous city in a state. As of 2015, Vermont was the leading producer of maple syrup in the United States. It was ranked as the safest state in the country in 2016.For thousands of years indigenous peoples, including the Mohawk and the Algonquian-speaking Abenaki, occupied much of the territory that is now Vermont and was later claimed by France's colony of New France. France ceded the territory to Great Britain after being defeated in 1763 in the Seven Years' War. Thereafter, the nearby colonies, especially the provinces of New Hampshire and New York, disputed the extent of the area called the New Hampshire Grants to the west of the Connecticut River, encompassing present-day Vermont. The provincial government of New York sold land grants to settlers in the region, which conflicted with earlier grants from the government of New Hampshire. The Green Mountain Boys militia protected the interests of the established New Hampshire land grant settlers against the newly arrived settlers with land titles granted by New York.
Ultimately, a group of settlers with New Hampshire land grant titles established the Vermont Republic in 1777 as an independent state during the American Revolutionary War. The Vermont Republic partially abolished slavery before any of the other states. Vermont then became the fourteenth state to be admitted to the newly established United States in 1791. Vermont is one of only four U.S. states that were previously sovereign states (along with California, Hawaii, and Texas), given that the original 13 states were formerly colonies. During the mid 19th century, Vermont was a strong source of abolitionist sentiment and sent a significant contingent of soldiers to participate in the American Civil War.
The geography of the state is marked by the Green Mountains, which run north-south up the middle of the state, separating Lake Champlain and other valley terrain on the west from the Connecticut River valley that defines much of its eastern border. A majority of its terrain is forested with hardwoods and conifers. A majority of its open land is in agriculture. The state's climate is characterized by warm, humid summers and cold, snowy winters. Its largest city, Burlington, had fewer than 50,000 residents, as of 2010. Demographically, the state was 94.3% white, as of 2010. At that time, Protestants (30%) and Catholics (22%) made up the majority of those reporting a religious preference with 37% reporting no religion. Other religions individually contributed no more than 2% to the total.
Vermont's economic activity of $26 billion in 2010 caused it to rank 34th in gross state product. It has been ranked 42nd as a state in which to do business. Politically, Vermont transitioned from being a reliably Republican state to one more liberal starting in 1960. It alternates between Republican and Democratic governors, but has sent only Democrats (or independents) to Congress since 2007. Voters have consistently chosen Democrats for president since 1992. The state became the first to recognize unions for same-sex couples through legislative action with the introduction of civil unions in 2000.
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Vermont | Wikipedia audio article
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Vermont
00:03:43 1 Etymology
00:04:39 2 Geography
00:06:53 2.1 Cities
00:07:17 2.2 Largest towns
00:07:33 2.3 Climate
00:09:42 2.4 Geology
00:11:45 2.5 Fauna
00:14:23 2.6 Flora
00:15:39 3 History
00:15:48 3.1 Native American
00:17:00 3.2 Colonial
00:20:34 3.3 Sovereignty
00:22:06 3.4 Revolutionary War
00:23:19 3.5 Admission to the Union
00:24:59 3.6 The Civil War
00:26:08 3.7 Postbellum era to present
00:26:18 3.7.1 Demographic changes
00:27:07 3.7.2 Natural disasters
00:28:17 3.7.3 Political changes
00:29:53 4 Demographics
00:30:02 4.1 Population changes
00:31:50 4.1.1 Birth data
00:32:17 4.2 Population characteristics
00:33:22 4.3 Vermont speech patterns
00:34:52 4.4 Religion
00:35:00 5 Economy
00:38:23 5.1 Personal income
00:39:29 5.2 Agriculture
00:40:20 5.2.1 Dairy farming
00:43:08 5.2.2 Forestry
00:45:40 5.2.3 Other
00:46:47 5.3 Manufacturing
00:47:17 5.4 Health
00:47:59 5.5 Housing
00:50:08 5.6 Labor
00:51:16 5.7 Insurance
00:52:10 5.8 Tourism
00:55:45 5.9 Quarrying
00:56:50 5.10 Non-profits and volunteerism
00:57:21 6 Transportation
00:59:44 6.1 Major routes
01:00:09 6.1.1 North–south routes
01:02:25 6.1.2 East–west routes
01:04:41 6.2 Rail
01:05:12 6.3 Bus
01:05:20 6.3.1 Intercity
01:06:13 6.3.2 Local
01:08:39 6.4 Ferry
01:09:02 6.5 Airports
01:09:54 7 Media
01:10:03 7.1 Newspapers of record
01:10:47 7.2 Broadcast media
01:11:47 8 Utilities
01:11:56 8.1 Electricity
01:14:22 8.2 Communication
01:15:08 9 Law and government
01:16:18 9.1 Finances and taxation
01:20:10 9.2 Politics
01:20:58 9.2.1 State politics
01:26:22 9.2.2 Federal politics
01:29:48 10 Public health
01:34:48 11 Education
01:36:25 11.1 Higher education
01:37:25 12 Culture
01:39:52 12.1 Sports
01:40:00 12.1.1 Winter sports
01:40:47 12.1.2 Baseball
01:41:15 12.1.3 Basketball
01:41:45 12.1.4 Football
01:42:09 12.1.5 Hockey
01:42:32 12.1.6 Soccer
01:42:56 12.1.7 Motorsport
01:43:50 13 State symbols
01:44:42 14 Notable Vermonters
01:44:58 14.1 Residents
01:46:22 14.2 In fiction
01:47:38 15 Vermont sights
01:47:47 16 See also
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Vermont ( (listen)) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the U.S. states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Vermont is the second-smallest by population and the sixth-smallest by area of the 50 U.S. states. The state capital is Montpelier, the least populous state capital in the United States. The most populous city, Burlington, is the least populous city to be the most populous city in a state. As of 2015, Vermont was the leading producer of maple syrup in the United States. It was ranked as the safest state in the country in 2016.For thousands of years indigenous peoples, including the Mohawk and the Algonquian-speaking Abenaki, occupied much of the territory that is now Vermont and was later claimed by France's colony of New France. France ceded the territory to Great Britain after being defeated in 1763 in the Seven Years' War. Thereafter, the nearby colonies, especially the provinces of New Hampshire and New York, disputed the extent of the area called the New Hampshire Grants to the west of the Connecticut River, encompassing present-day Vermont. The provincial government of New York sold land grants to settlers in the region, which conflicted with earlier grants from the government of New Hampshire. The Green Mountain Boys militia protected the interests of the established New Hampshire land grant settlers against the newly arrived settlers with land titles granted by New York.
Ultimately, a group of settlers with New Hampshire land grant titles established the Vermont Republic in 1777 as an independent state during the American Revolutionary War. The Vermont Republic partially abolished slavery before any of the other states. Vermont then became the fourteenth state to be admitted to the newly established United States in 1791. Vermont ...
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Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials | Wikipedia audio article
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Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
00:01:59 1 Background
00:03:35 2 Academic commentary
00:09:03 3 History of removals
00:10:10 4 Organizations encouraging monument removal
00:10:48 5 Destruction of monuments
00:12:00 6 Laws hindering removals
00:14:20 7 Public opinion
00:15:04 8 What to do with the plinths (pedestals)
00:16:59 9 Removed monuments and memorials
00:17:09 9.1 National
00:17:29 9.2 Alabama
00:19:13 9.3 Alaska
00:19:39 9.4 Arizona
00:20:12 9.5 Arkansas
00:20:50 9.6 California
00:22:55 9.7 Colorado
00:23:13 9.8 District of Columbia
00:24:18 9.9 Florida
00:31:38 9.10 Georgia
00:33:25 9.11 Kansas
00:34:12 9.12 Kentucky
00:35:31 9.13 Louisiana
00:41:48 9.14 Maine
00:42:06 9.15 Maryland
00:44:50 9.16 Massachusetts
00:45:12 9.17 Mississippi
00:45:46 9.18 Missouri
00:46:42 9.19 Montana
00:47:14 9.20 Nevada
00:47:41 9.21 New Mexico
00:47:56 9.22 New York
00:48:47 9.23 North Carolina
00:54:18 9.24 Ohio
00:55:19 9.25 Oklahoma
00:55:49 9.26 South Carolina
00:56:27 9.27 Tennessee
00:59:55 9.28 Texas
01:08:04 9.29 Utah
01:08:20 9.30 Vermont
01:09:14 9.31 Virginia
01:15:51 9.32 Washington (state)
01:18:29 9.33 Wisconsin
01:19:40 9.34 Canada
01:20:08 10 See also
01:20:51 11 Further reading
01:23:37 11.1 Video
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For decades in the U.S., there have been isolated incidents of removal of Confederate monuments and memorials, although generally opposed in public opinion polls, and several U.S. States have passed laws over 115 years to hinder or prohibit further removals.
In the wake of the Charleston church shooting in June 2015, several municipalities in the United States removed monuments and memorials on public property dedicated to the Confederate States of America. The momentum accelerated in August 2017 after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The removals were driven by the belief that the monuments glorify white supremacy and memorialize a treasonous government whose founding principle was the perpetuation and expansion of slavery. Many of those who object to the removals, like President Trump, believe that the artifacts are part of the cultural heritage of the United States.The vast majority of these Confederate monuments were built during the era of Jim Crow laws (1877–1954) and the Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968). Detractors claim that they were not built as memorials but as a means of intimidating African Americans and reaffirming white supremacy. The monuments have thus become highly politicized; according to Eleanor Harvey, a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a scholar of Civil War history: If white nationalists and neo-Nazis are now claiming this as part of their heritage, they have essentially co-opted those images and those statues beyond any capacity to neutralize them again.In some Southern states, state law restricts or prohibits altogether the removal or alteration of public Confederate monuments. According to Stan Deaton, senior historian at the Georgia Historical Society, These laws are the Old South imposing its moral and its political views on us forever more. This is what led to the Civil War, and it still divides us as a country. We have competing visions not only about the future but about the past.
Hurricane Agnes
Hurricane Agnes was, at the time, the costliest hurricane to hit the United States in recorded history. The second tropical cyclone and first named storm of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Agnes developed on June 14 from the interaction of a polar front and an upper trough over the Yucatán Peninsula. Initially forming as a tropical depression, the storm headed slowly eastward and emerged into the western Caribbean Sea on June 15. Once in the Caribbean, the depression began to strengthen, and by the following day, it became Tropical Storm Agnes. Thereafter, Agnes slowly curved northward and passed just west of Cuba on June 17. Early on June 18, the storm intensified enough to be upgraded to Hurricane Agnes. Heading northward, the hurricane eventually made landfall near Panama City, Florida late on June 19. After moving inland, Agnes rapidly weakened and was only a tropical depression when it entered Georgia. The weakening trend halted as the storm crossed over Georgia and into South Carolina. While over eastern North Carolina, Agnes re-strengthened into a tropical storm on June 21, as a result of baroclinic activity. Early the following day, the storm emerged into the Atlantic Ocean before re-curving northwestward and making landfall near New York City as a strong tropical storm. Agnes quickly became an extratropical cyclone on June 23, and tracked to the northwest of Great Britain before becoming absorbed by another cyclone on July 6.
Though it moved slowly across the Yucatán Peninsula, damage in Mexico is unknown. Although the storm bypassed the tip of Cuba, heavy rainfall occurred, killing seven people. In Florida, Agnes caused a significant tornado outbreak, with at least 26 confirmed twisters, two of which were spawned in Georgia. The tornadoes and two initially unconfirmed tornadoes in Florida alone resulted in over $4.5 million (1972 USD) in damage and six fatalities. At least 2,082 structures in Florida suffered either major damage or were destroyed. About 1,355 other dwellings experienced minor losses. Though Agnes made landfall as a hurricane, no hurricane force winds were reported. Along the coast abnormally high tides resulted in extensive damage, especially between Apalachicola and Cedar Key. Light to moderate rainfall was reported in Florida, though no significant flooding occurred. In Georgia, damage was limited to two tornadoes, which caused approximately $275,000 (1972 USD) in losses. Minimal effects were also recorded in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Tennessee; though one fatality was reported in Delaware. The most significant effects, by far, occurred in Pennsylvania, mostly due to severe flooding. The hurricane severely flooded the Susquehanna River and the Lackawanna River causing a lot of damage to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. In both Pennsylvania and New Jersey combined, about 43,594 structures were either destroyed or significantly damaged. In Canada, a mobile home was toppled, killing two people. Overall, Agnes caused 128 fatalities and nearly $3 billion (1972 USD) in damage, though more recently, it is estimated that there were $2.1 billion (1972 USD) in losses associated with the storm. Due to the significant effects, the name Agnes was retired in the spring of 1973.
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The Onondaga Escarpment of Southern Ontario & Lake Erie shoreline.
The Onondaga Escarpment runs parallel to the larger Niagara Escarpment, but south and west of the Niagara fault line. The cliffs and outcrops of the Onondaga Escarpment rarely reach more than 10 meters in height ...versus the 100 - 300 meter high cliffs of its more famous Niagara cousin.
The escarpments also face in opposite directions; the Niagara cliffs face mainly north and east, while the Onondaga faces south and west, throughout Ontario. These scarps are ~40 km (25 miles) apart at their closest approach at Fort Erie, and ~64 km (40 miles) apart at the northern extent, from Georgian Bay to Lake Huron.
Historically, outcrops of the Onondaga Escarpment were a very valuable source of fine quality flint (chert), and used for millennia by the people living around southern Ontario; for tools, projectile points, scrapers and for trading. Onondaga chert artifacts have been found as far away as the Michigan peninsula, some 400 km from the nearest outcrops, for example.
Onondaga chert was also an important historical source of rock used in making millstones for grain mills in the Niagara peninsula during earlier settlement periods. Today there are examples found by the old mill in St. George and at the Brantford museum.
The Onondaga scarp is also an important geographical feature of the southern Ontario landscape. This south facing wall of bedrock stabilizes most of the north shoreline from erosion along most of eastern Lake Erie. The October 1934 black & white aerial photo collage clearly reveals the extent of bedrock along the shoreline, thanks to the work of Brock University Library staff who made the collage available on Google Earth.
Many of the Onondaga outcrops, or points, jutting out into the lake were given names at some former time. Yellow names appearing in the video are from modern & historic maps, dating back to 1863, yet I wonder what they were called by people long before that...?
The fault turns inland, from the shoreline, around Peacock Point and runs northwest until entering Lake Huron, just south of the Bruce Nuclear power facility! Many escarpment outcrops are still found west of Peacock Point, as far as Fisher's Glen 24 km away along the north shore of Long Point Bay, and are likely part of a large fault branching off of the main Onondaga scarp.
Satellite photos from April 2017 are in colour but not as clear as the older b&w photos, making it difficult to see outcrops from 1500 feet above the surface. Details of fissures and layers of bedrock can be easily viewed when zoomed in on the coloured frames, so for ease of locating some of the outcrops are labelled with a blue orb to 'point' them out.
The bedrock base was greatly damaged by some cataclysm here in Ontario in the distant past. Theories suggest the escarpment was formed by weight of a giant glacier receding to the north some 12,000 years ago. However, results of modern geological studies reveal how a giant comet either impacted or exploded over northeastern North America, and Ontario, some 12, 000 years ago too. I have to wonder if the shock waves from this massive comet event cracked the layers of bedrock throughout this entire area?!
Although formed by some ancient cataclysm, I can't help but see today how ages of water washing over the Onondaga Escarpment shoreline has softened the ancient scars and has created graceful patterns out of its rough and broken layers, and how life adapted to the area once again.
I hope you enjoyed the fly over! : )