University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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wild gorges; ot tiiikliiiir watiit.ills, hidden from the sight of nun, and turesque fences, and pasture land and slow-moving, rushing rivers, that turn the wheels of enter))rise: of seeluded mountain trails and panoramic maca- dam; of lakes and i)onds ; of old, i)ic- meadow ; of sunnner skies and winter snows. The state is 150 milis long, PO miles wide on its northern honhr, and Id on its southern. Its jiopnlation numl)rrs . ' J50.000. Its largest city is Turlington, residential. tree-grown, facing I.. -ike ( ' liam|)lain. liacke l hy the Green Mountain ranges, n city of 25.000 inhabitants, the lumii- of the University of Vermont, which was founded hy Ira Allen, jiioneer, soldier and statesman, land liolder. industrial- ist, scholar. In the stum])y fiilds. where the early settlers so lahoriousl v drove their furrows beneath the sli.idow of .Mansfiild. Camel ' s Hum)) and Kil-

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soutli by Massachusetts. Within these boundaries, in a mountain land, dwell a mountain people. Their watchword, sprung of those virtues that gave the land birth, is Freedom and Unity. The little clearings, with their lonely cabins, have given place to fertile fields, over wliose green acres white farmhouses preside. Where once a struggling ham- let reared itself from out tlie wilder- ness, perchance at the falls of the Big Otter or back upon the elevated moun- tain slopes, attractive villages now lie nestled in the cool embrace of watered valleys, or perched high, with com- manding vision, on wooded hillsides. Woodstock. IManchester. Bristol. Pros- perous cities, Burlington, Rutland. St. Albans, not yet grown so large as to be inimical to the pioneer spirit of their builders, overlook Champlain and the Connecticut and the inland waterways. It is a land of a thousand colorful mountain ] eaks ; of mossy dells and

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lington and along the banks of the Winooski. Lamoille and Passumpsic, contending for daily subsistence against the ever-threatening encroacliment of the forest, a grudging soil, long win- ters and early and late frosts, are now grown waving crops of hay and shocks of yellow grain that have placed Ver- mont among the leading states of that Union which once would have kept her out. The value of her crops, such as corn, buckwheat, oats, potatoes, bar- lev and wheat and hay, in which her yield per acre is one of the heaviest in the country, now amounts annually to nearly . fsO.OOO.OOO. Hotels, shops, factories, all the opportunities for rec- reation and entertainment now abound. Cottages nestle among the trees that stretch down from the mountains to enfold the mirroring waters of translu- cent lakes. Dunmore. Bomoseen.