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Toot Toot

After being discovered via the Travelblog, I was interviewed for a Seven Days article last week. Check it out.

ntodd

The Gores

I'm going to do something I don't ever do, and quote an entire article. The Burlington Free Press doesn't archive things for more than a week and I didn't feel like cherry-picking quotes, so...

The gores join Vermont

By Matt Sutkoski
Free Press Staff Writer

Unwelcome visitors have come to the vast forests, remote ponds and isolated homesteads in the far northeast corner of Vermont.

Spiraling taxes, development, zoning disputes -- all occasional intruders on Vermont's good life -- are making their first inroads on Averill, Averys Gore, Ferdinand, Lewis, Warners Grant and Warren Gore.

The six towns and gores, known as the Unorganized Towns and Gores of Essex County, or UTG, were the last vestiges of a version of 19th-century Vermont, one that was light on rules and outside influence.

Unorganized towns and gores are creatures different from most communities in Vermont. Gores and grants are essentially surveying mistakes -- leftover scraps of land -- made two centuries ago as people established town boundaries.

Autumn In Vermont

Just FYI, I've created an Autumn in Vermont photoalbum that I'll be updating as the season progresses.

ntodd