Christmas in Vermont

Our thanks to Michael Hardiman for contributing the following selection of Christmas in Vermont Scenes. All Photos Copyright 2001-2002 Mike Hardiman

"People come here from around the country to see what Christmas ought to look like," says March Franklin, a farmer near Ludlow. "They expect snow -- lots of snow -- and big pine trees. They want towns that look like something from an old book, with a general store and a village green. They want little white churches with sharp steeples and courthouses with cement pillars stuck up front. And they want to walk into a corner drugstore and sit at the soda fountain and catch a bit of gossip about how the Congregational choir has gone to wrack and ruin since so-and-so took over. They may hope for a sleigh ride, too. People are funny about sleigh rides. I guess that's why they all want to spend Christmas in Vermont."

Our thanks to Michael Hardiman for contributing the selection of Christmas in Vermont Scenes. All Photos Copyright 2001-2002 Mike Hardiman

  Photos: Copyright 2001-2002 Mike Hardiman

Source:  Richard Brown and Jay Parini, A Vermont Christmas, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, MA: 1988.