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     The breathtaking wilderness of the beautiful Green Mountains
         Green Mountains
     1                        century. Take a stroll along the
         It would scarcely be an
                              attractive waterfront and see if
     exaggeration to say that Vermont    you can spy those watery coils
     is the Green Mountains and vice   from the safety of the shore.
     versa, as this ancient range in the
                                  Montpelier
     Appalachian chain touches almost   4
     every part of the state (see pp26–7).  MAP K3
                              For an iconic Vermont image, stop
         Brattleboro
     2                        along State Street during foliage
                              season to take a snapshot of the
         MAP K6
     Vermont’s first permanent English   gold­domed State House backed by
     settlement, Brattleboro flourished in   a hillside of red and flame­orange
     the 19th century as a Connecticut   maple trees. The city was selected
     River manufacturing town at the   for state capital in 1805 because it
     juncture of Vermont, Massachusetts,   lies at the geographic center of
     and New Hampshire. The town got    Vermont as well as in the main
     a new lease on life in the 1960s as   east­west pass through the Green
     the counterculture capital of the   Mountains. The highly regarded
     upper Connecticut River Valley, and   New England Culinary Institute
     is known around the state for its   guarantees that Montpelier eats
     stridently liberal politics. The thriving  well, especially at the school’s
     cultural community includes several   NECI on Main (see p113).
     galleries, a performing arts center,
     and a school of circus arts that is   Vermont State House, Montpelier
     open to the general public.
         Newport
     3
         MAP L5
     Vermont’s northernmost city is
     set at the southern edge of Lake
     Memphremagog, a body of water
     27 miles (43 km) long that is shared
     with the province of Quebec. A glacial
     lake that was a saltwater inland sea
     at the end of the Laurentian glacia­
     tion, Memphremagog has long been
     rumored to hold a sea serpent akin
     to the Loch Ness Monster. Sightings
     of the elusive creature that locals
     call “Memphre” date to the 18th




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