Download or read book Vermont s Scenic Landscapes written by Elizabeth Courtney and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The View from Vermont written by Blake A. Harrison and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its small native population, proximity to major metropolitan areas, and bucolic rural beauty, Vermont was fated to be a tourist mecca, forever associated in the popular imagination with maple syrup, fall colors, and ski bunnies. Tourism, for good and ill, has always been the decisive factor in the conception of rural Vermont. What is surprising, however, is the degree to which we have accepted this notion of rural Vermont as a somehow timeless entity. Blake Harrison's rich and rewarding study instead presents the construction of Vermont's landscape as a complex and ever-changing dynamic informed by progressive, modernist, and reformist thought, competing views of economic expansion, rural and urban prejudice and social exclusion, and (more recently) by land use planning and environmentalism. This broad-based study includes the early history of Vermont tourism, the concomitant abandonment of farms with the rise of the summer home, the creation of an "unspoiled" Vermont (from billboards, at least), the impact of Vermont's ski industry on tradition-bound tourism, and later efforts to legislate growth and protect an increasingly static ideal of a rural Vermont.While grounded within a specific Vermont view, Harrison has much to contribute to broader studies of rural places, tourism, and landscapes in American culture. His analysis of how physical landscapes affect and are affected by our imagined landscape, and the insight afforded by his juxtaposition of leisure and labor, will deeply inform our understanding of rural tourist landscapes for years to come. This is a truly interdisciplinary work that will satisfy and challenge historians and geographers alike.
Download or read book Hands on the Land written by Jan Albers and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history--natural, environmental, social, and ultimately human--of one of America's most cherished landscapes: Vermont.
Download or read book Scenic Driving Vermont written by Stewart M. Green and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pack up the car and enjoy gorgeous drives through some of the most spectacular scenery Vermont has to offer. This pocket-size guide is an indispensable highway companion that maps out short trips for exploring scenic byways and back roads. Whether you embark on an adventure that winds along mountainsides or cuts through open fields, the road trips in Scenic Driving Vermont transform your passenger seat into a front row seat to experience natural beauty at its finest.
Download or read book Vermont Scenery Classification and Analysis written by Dorothy L. Moore and published by . This book was released on with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vermont Scenery Preservation written by Vermont. Central Planning Office and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beauty of Vermont written by Tom Slayton and published by Vermont Life Magazine. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vermont is one of the most cherished and beautiful places on earth, and no publication captures its character as does award-winning Vermont Life Magazine. This stunning book brings together the best, the most colorful, and the most beautiful photographs that have graced the magazine over the past decade. The display is by season, from the rebirth of spring through the glories of summer, the colors of autumn, and the crystalline beauty of winter. Essays and introduction by Vermont Life Editor Tom Slayton offer a season-by-season appreciation of Vermont's landscape based on his commentaries for Vermont Public Radio.
Download or read book The Vermonter written by Charles Spooner Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wandering Home written by Bill McKibben and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[McKibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class traveling companion."—Entertainment Weekly In Wandering Home, one of his most personal books, Bill McKibben invites readers to join him on a hike from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks. Here he reveals that the motivation for his impassioned environmental activism is not high-minded or abstract, but as tangible as the lakes and forests he explored in his twenties, the same woods where he lives with his family today. Over the course of his journey McKibben meets with old friends and kindred spirits, including activists, writers, organic farmers, a vintner, a beekeeper, and environmental studies students, all in touch with nature and committed to its preservation. For McKibben, there is no better place than these woods to work out a balance between the wild and the cultivated, the individual and the global community, and to discover the answers to the challenges facing our planet today.
Download or read book Central Vermont Railroad Scenery written by Central Vermont Railroad and published by . This book was released on 1880* with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Scenery Reached by the Grand Trunk Railway written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Vermonts written by Paul M. Searls and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Vermonts establishes a little-known fact about Vermont: that the state's fascination with tourism as a savior for a suffering economy is more than a century old, and that this interest in tourism has always been dogged by controversy. Through this lens, the book is poised to take its place as the standard work on Vermont in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. Searls examines the origins of Vermont's contemporary identity and some reasons why that identity ("Who is a Vermonter?") is to this day so hotly contested. Searls divides nineteenth-century Vermonters into conceptually "uphill," or rural/parochial, and "downhill," or urban/cosmopolitan, elements. These two groups, he says, negotiated modernity in distinct and contrary ways. The dissonance between their opposing tactical approaches to progress and change belied the pastoral ideal that contemporary urban Americans had come to associate with the romantic notion of "Vermont." Downhill Vermonters, espousing a vision of a mutually reinforcing relationship between tradition and progress, unilaterally endeavored to foster the pastoral ideal as a means of stimulating economic development. The hostile uphill resistance to this strategy engendered intense social conflict over issues including education, religion, and prohibition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The story of Vermont's vigorous nineteenth-century quest for a unified identity bears witness to the stirring and convoluted forging of today's "Vermont." Searls's engaging exploration of this period of Vermont's history advances our understanding of the political, economic, and cultural transformation of all of rural America as industrial capitalism and modernity revolutionized the United States between 1865 and 1910. By the late Progressive Era, Vermont's reputation was rooted in the national yearning to keep society civil, personal, and meaningful in a world growing more informal, bureaucratic, and difficult to navigate. The fundamental ideological differences among Vermont communities are indicative of how elusive and frustrating efforts to balance progress and tradition were in the context of effectively negotiating capitalist transformation in contemporary America.
Download or read book Report on the Economical Geology Physical Geography and Scenery of Vermont written by Albert David Hager and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of Our National Landscape written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of Our National Landscape written by Gary H. Elsner and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains highlights of new developments in managing and maintaining the attractiveness of wildland landscapes.
Download or read book Touring Vermont s Scenic Roads written by Kenneth Aiken and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vermont is quintessential New England and a wonderful state to explore, offering grand vistas, lovely farms and villages, historic sites, and rolling mountains. In addition you'll encounter minimal traffic, plenty of scenic turnoffs, and absolutely no billboards. Here a native Vermonter guides us through the entire state, from windswept peaks to lush farmlands, from magnificent Lake Champlain to the Northeast Kingdom. Fascinating histories and anecdotes accompany the precise road directions, giving us a sense of the true character of Vermont.
Download or read book Vermont Trout Ponds written by Peter Shea and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Shea is co-author of the Vermont bestsellers The Atlas of Vermont Trout Ponds, Vermont Lakes In Depth, and Vermont Trout Streams, as well as the author of In The Company of Trout: True Stories, Ruminations, and Vermont Guidance, and Long Trail Trout: Backcountry Fly-fishing Adventures from Vermont to Montana. This newest volume focuses his favorite Vermont lakes and ponds, illustrating each of these water bodies with a map - and in most cases a depth chart, for planning angling strategies. Sharing information, comments, and the occasional angling tale that span his nearly fifty years of chasing Vermont trout, the author transports the reader to twenty varied destinations. From places that are ideal to bring the family and young children, to the most remote trout fishing to be had in the Green Mountains, the angler will enjoy Shea's personal and informative take on these fishing holes, and have a laugh or two in the voyage.
