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Our VermontFALL 2020 TASTY VERMONT CHEDDAR RECIPES SLEEPY HOLLOW: A FARM MADE FOR PHOTO OPS THE SNOW GEESE Celebrating the people, places, and traditions ARE COMING! that make the Green Mountain State so original Letter from the Editor 1121 Main St., P.O. Box 520, Dublin, NH 03444 Water Ways 603-563-8111; newengland.com This special edition was produced by Yankee Publishing Inc. for hen I think of summer, it’s the days that never seem to The Vermont Country Store. end that I remember most, the daylight ebbing slowly, Select stories and photographs are weekends by a lake with long swims and a cooler excerpted from articles previously perched by the chair. But to me, autumn has always published by Yankee. beenW a time of doing. The cooler days put a spring in my step. Time to Vol. 3, No. 3 split wood, rake leaves, pick apples. Copyright 2020 by Yankee Publishing Most of all, fall invites day-tripping—whether for a mountain hike Inc.; all rights reserved. or a bike journey, or simply to leave the familiar to discover what might lie around some distant curve. It has always been that way for PUBLISHER me in this state, so trim in width and so manageable in length that Brook Holmberg you can take in more beauty in a weekend than anywhere else I know. MARKETING DIRECTOR And these days, my thoughts more than ever have returned to the Kate Hathaway Weeks Vermont treks that have lingered in my memory, especially the ones EDITOR where color and water converge. Here are four places in Vermont to Mel Allen see now, or down the road, that will help you understand why it seems as though ART DIRECTOR the Green Mountain State invented the Katharine Van Itallie convergence of fall foliage and water views. SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR n The Northeast Kingdom is the least Ian Aldrich populated corner of the state, as well MANAGING EDITOR as one of the loveliest. And there, Lake Jenn Johnson Willoughby may be the sweetest sight of all, with Mount Pisgah and Mount Hor SENIOR FOOD EDITOR framing the glacier-carved waters. If Amy Traverso you come away feeling as though you’ve ASSOCIATE EDITOR viewed a magical Norwegian fjord, you’ll Joe Bills not be the first. n On Route 4, less than eight miles east of Woodstock, you PHOTO EDITOR find the tumbling waters of Quechee Gorge, a favorite spot for my Heather Marcus family. When my boys were young, we kept watch as they easily CONTRIBUTING WRITERS maneuvered down to the large flat rocks in the river, where we followed, picnic in tow. John Elder, Castle Freeman Jr., Annie Graves, Bill Scheller, Julia Shipley n Lake Champlain washes the shores of Burlington, with the Adirondacks rising to the west. To sit on a bench at Battery Park— CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS seagulls circling above, sailboats gliding over the water, waves lapping Monica Donovan, Mark Fleming, against the banks—makes sunset an occasion each day. Sara Gray, Corey Hendrickson, n Drive north from Burlington and you come to the Champlain Jeff Nadler, Oliver Parini, Lori Pedrick, Islands, which stretch along the lake for some 30 miles, from South Heath Robbins Hero to the Alburgh peninsula. You’ll encounter farm stands, a On the cover: A fall landscape along vineyard, narrow roads that end where lake meets land, country Route 7 south of Rutland, Vermont. lanes bordered by cottages, and enough French accents to make you Photograph by Mark Martins want to find a baguette and cheese and just sit awhile. There are no towns, really, just a string of villages, and on clear nights the sky will seem to bloom with stars. Mel Allen [email protected] 2 Our Vermont Contents Changing Seasons 22 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Farm 4 The Color Red How a humble Vermont homestead That splash of crimson never fails became an Instagram icon. to draw our attention to fall. 25 Where Past Is Present Local Flavor Once the home of “ordinary people doing extraordinary things,” 5 Making the Cut Rokeby tells a historic tale that Vermont cheddar is the star of resonates today. these favorite Yankee recipes (including, of course, a classic Vermont Life mac and cheese). 28 Back Tracks 13 Patch Work Ride along on a journey into How a childhood fascination with the hidden world of freight trains. pumpkins became one Vermonter’s calling. Plus: A sampling of 33 Flocking into Fall pumpkin patches across the state. When snow geese fly south for the winter, thousands 16 A Pit Stop for Pies make a spectacular stopover in Baked in a farmhouse and sold on Addison County. the honor system, Poorhouse Pies’ offerings are pure Vermont. Made in Vermont 18 Mad Tom Orchard 35 A Legacy of Beauty We head to East Dorset as part of In his farmhouse in the woods, our ongoing series spotlighting George Sawyer continues small producers bringing the a family tradition of making bounty of Vermont to the table. Windsor chairs by hand. Apple picking doesn’t get much more scenic than Destinations One Last Thing at Mad Tom Orchard, a family-owned farm set in the 20 37 southern Green Mountains. The Spans of Time The Rake’s Progress Story, p. 18. Cruise into yesteryear on the roads A brief history of how humankind of Montgomery, the covered bridge has tackled autumn’s inevitable capital of Vermont. chore: picking up all those leaves. A special deal for customers of The Vermont Country Store One year of Yankee Magazine for Only $19.97 SAVE MARCUS 52% Subscribe now at vermontcountrystore.com/YANKEE off cover price HEATHER Our Vermont 3 Changing Seasons The Color Red That splash of crimson never fails to draw our attention to fall. ed enters our surroundings in a million ways, leaves of blueberry bushes reliably turn an honest red but wherever, however it occurs, it is never (at least mine do) and so do the leaves and fruits of the quite prosaic, never entirely innocuous, never sumac; but in the symphony of the fall colors these are completely without its pointed associations. soft and subtle tones. The colors that sell the tickets and RAll things that are truly red are exciting and cause fill the galleries are the oranges and yellows. excitement: cardinals, fire engines, certain roses, ripe Nevertheless, if red is a color that autumn is apt to tomatoes, and (by no coincidence at all) the flags of withhold, still it has its role there, an essential role— many, many states and nations. You don’t ignore these indeed an inevitable role, it seems to me, if you consider things. Consider a village street where each house has the meaning of red, its ring of warning. For I have, a wash of laundry drying on the line. You’ll pass down over many years, noticed how the very first leaves to that street a hundred times turn, often before fall has and hardly notice where properly arrived, are likely you are. But if you pass on to turn red. a day when one line has a In the wooded fencerow suit of red long underwear near where I attempt to flapping in the breeze, your grow vegetables is a tree heart will be lifted up. that turns early. It’s not I think we are alert at all a big tree: 30 feet to red because in nature tall, no thicker than your it’s not that common leg. I think it’s a swamp a color, at least not in maple. It grows in a clump its most powerful, fire- with three other trees engine manifestation. of like kind and size and Understand, now, that is remarkable in no way the color I am celebrating until around the middle is no equivocal, hesitant of the last week in August. red. This is no ambitious Each year at that same pink, no overreaching time the leaves of this orange, but scarlet—a little tree turn precisely true, unmixed red. In that hard scarlet I have my neighborhood it is mainly the property of two tried here to praise, the red of rubies. The tree seems to songbirds, neither of them plentiful; two wildflowers turn in a single night. In the morning I spot it at once. (the scarlet bergamot and one of the lobelias); certain All around it, near at hand and far off, the woods hold varieties of apple, well ripened; and—most abundantly— their midsummer green untroubled. They will hold it the dying leaves of hardwood trees. In this last guise, for another three weeks, maybe longer. Against their of course, the color has become famous, rising to the cool uniformity this sudden red is like a jar of paint status of a regional institution. Every fall, people come dashed across a billiard table. It leaps out from the quiet to this little corner of the country from all over the morning like a shout, like a bugle note. world to see leaves, red and otherwise. What warning could be more seasonable? By the time Even in composing the vast and complex spectacle that little tree turns, we’ve all gotten pretty slack. We of the autumn leaves, however, nature uses true red need to hear its universal admonition. The afternoons sparingly. The principal color maker in a Vermont valley won’t always last forever. Your ice cream won’t always is the sugar maple, and of these trees a hundred will melt in the dish. The bees won’t always buzz among the turn lemon yellow and two hundred will turn some flowers.

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