Download or read book The Mad River Valley written by John Hilferty and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mad River Valley show slices of daily life in the valley's five towns: Warren, Waitsfield, and Moretown, which lie in the river's path; and Fayston and Duxbury, on the valley's western slope.
Download or read book Mad River Valley written by John Hilferty and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning as an icy trickle in the Green Mountains of Vermont, the northward-flowing Mad River and its scenic valley have changed little since being settled after the Revolutionary War. The valley's dairy farms, terraced meadows, upland forests, nineteenth-century villages, country inns, and classic ski resorts attract a half-million tourists each year. The historic photographs in The Mad River Valley show slices of daily life in the valley's five towns: Warren, Waitsfield, and Moretown, which lie in the river's path; and Fayston and Duxbury, on the valley's western slope. The area's economy, driven and sustained by river-powered mills and logging, plus sheep, then dairy farming, eventually gave way to the more spirited pastimes of skiing, hiking, fishing, and biking, all dictated by the lay of the land and the flow of the river.
Download or read book Mad River Valley Pioneer written by Mad River Valley Pioneer and Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Skiing in the Mad River Valley written by John Hilferty and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948, the first skiers to experience the steep and twisting downhill trails of Mad River Glen had to traverse muddy or frozen dirt roads to get to their destination. The warmth of a country inn was a comfort on those cold winter nights and continues as a hallmark of the Mad River Valley today. Even with the condo boom that developed after the opening of Sugarbush on Christmas Day in 1958, little has upset the ambience of the 20-mile-long valley. The valley developed a distinct personality, attracting "ski bums" who exchanged urban pressures for a laid-back lifestyle that continues today.
Download or read book Take Me Back written by Mary Kathleen Mehuron and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We have so much to be proud of in our Mad River Valley. We grew from mills and farmland to three world-class ski mountains, yet maintained the pristine landscape so faithfully that there is not one traffic light here. From such can-do spirit was the Take Me Back project born. A few articles became a column, and then a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and now a book. One hundred percent of the book's purchase price will go to support local organizations showcasing our beloved Valley's history. Also in the spirit of can-do and let's-help, contributors in this book donated their work... This is, like so much of the Valley's heritage, a home-grown product from start to finish. And that makes it a perfect keepsake for generations to come" -- Publisher.
Download or read book Socrates Cafe A Fresh Taste of Philosophy written by Christopher Phillips and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bracing, rollicking read about the spark that ignites when people start asking meaningful questions." —O Magazine Christopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. "Like a Johnny Appleseed with a master's degree, Phillips has gallivanted back and forth across America, to cafés and coffee shops, senior centers, assisted-living complexes, prisons, libraries, day-care centers, elementary and high schools, and churches, forming lasting communities of inquiry" (Utne Reader). Phillips not only presents the fundamentals of philosophical thought in this "charming, Philosophy for Dummies-type guide" (USA Today); he also recalls what led him to start his itinerant program and re-creates some of the most invigorating sessions, which come to reveal sometimes surprising, often profound reflections on the meaning of love, friendship, work, growing old, and others among Life's Big Questions. "How to Start Your Own Socrates Café" guide included.
Download or read book Report of the Antiquities of Mad River Valley written by Thomas F. Moses and published by . This book was released on with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Once Upon a Time written by Kevin Eurich and published by Take Me Back. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a time capsule of simpler times in the Mad River Valley with photos of tiny villages, how we lived, buildings and the people of a bygone era. Four little towns make up the Mad River Valley, still bits of heaven on earth.
Download or read book A Future for Affordable Housing in the Mad River Valley written by Humstone Squires Associates and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mad River written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN YOU CROSS THE BORDER INTO VERMONT from any of the three states and one country that surround it, you’ll notice something peculiar: no billboards. Where giant advertisements typically loom along the highway, you’ll see only towering sugar maples and an indefinite repetition of peaks and valleys as you make your way up, up, up into the high places of the Green Mountain State. "Flatlanders," as true Vermonters call those from away, are understandably enchanted by the place’s virgin beauty. They arrive in droves each fall to watch the leaves turn from emerald green to the hues of a flickering flame. They come for the quaintness quotient: the maple syrup, the fresh-pressed apple cider, and the corn mazes. But there are bizarre pockets to be found in this autumnal haven. Everywhere we went, we kept bumping into the idea of failure. It was not, however, something to be feared. Instead, the mindset was as Irish playwright Samuel Beckett once said: "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." When we visited the Mad River Valley - which includes the towns of Warren, Waitsfield, Moretown, Fayston, and Duxbury - we found grown men who loiter outside the local general store like furtive minors, sheepishly asking inbound customers if they’d be willing to help them circumvent the three-bottle limit on the impossible-to-find Sip of Sunshine double IPA from Lawson’s Finest Liquids. We shared drinks with backwoods boys, each with a quirky approach to extreme sports: kayaking raging rivers, big-air huck fests in sleds, and cliff-jumping at near-suicidal heights. We met a man who builds houses in the trees for the disabled youth of the Mad River Valley (p. 100). We found a woman who forges artful kitchen knives out of old horse-hoof rasps from her father’s blacksmith operation. We ran into a socialist German refugee whose politically charged puppet shows in the fields of the Northeast Kingdom draw thousands. And of course there were the architects. By some estimates, there are more architects per capita in Warren, Vermont, than anywhere else in the United States. Throughout the ’60s and ’70s, these freewheeling designers hacked together zany, experimental constructions on Prickly Mountain, heralding the arrival of the design/build movement. Of all the hard-to-get-to spots in the Union, Vermont’s remoteness comes as a surprise in New England’s backyard. It’s a place that must be sought out. But for those Flatlanders willing to do so, the state’s outré charms are unavoidable.
Download or read book River Reaper Rail written by Timothy Hans Hale Thoresen and published by Ohio History and Culture. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: River, Reaper, Rail: Agriculture and Identity in Ohio's Mad River Valley, 1795-1885 tells the story of farmers and technology in Ohio's Champaign County and its Mad River Valley from the beginnings of white settlement in 1795 through the decades after the Civil War. This is a story of land-hungry migrants who brought a market-oriented farm ethos across the Appalachians into the Ohio Valley. There, they adapted their traditional farm practices to opportunities and big changes brought by the railroad, the mechanization of the harvesting process, and the development of state-sponsored farmer organizations. For a few decades in the middle of the 19th century, this part of America's heartland was the center of the nation geographically, agriculturally, and industrially. With the coming of the Civil War and the nation's further industrialization and westward expansion, the representative centrality of west central Ohio diminished. But the shared conviction that "we are an agricultural people" did not. This book presents their embrace of that view as a process of innovation, adjustment, challenge, and conservative acceptance spanning two or three generations.
Download or read book Vermont s Mad River Valley written by Mad River Watershed Conservation Partnership (Vt.) and published by . This book was released on 1996* with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Watching the River s Health written by John M. Byrne and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agriculture of the Mad River Valley written by Mark B. Lapping and published by . This book was released on 1979* with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ski written by and published by . This book was released on 1974-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mad River Valley Growth Study written by Central Vermont Regional Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mad River Valley Rural Resource Protection Plan written by Vermont Land Trust and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
