The View from Vermont

The View from Vermont

Author: Blake A. Harrison

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781584655916

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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.


2020 Weekly Planner

2020 Weekly Planner

Author: Noon Sun Handy Books

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9781099222016

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Calling history buffs! This weekly planner for 2020 features a vintage panoramic map on its cover. Such detailed city views (also known as bird's eye or perspective maps) were popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and required much painstaking effort to produce. Makes a great gift for yourself or for the map enthusiast in your life.


The History of 45 Mill Street

The History of 45 Mill Street

Author: Martha Schoonmaker

Publisher: Martha and Randall Schoonmaker

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 9780615388472

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Historical archive of numerous factories and companies on a site in Wilmington, Vermont from 1914-present.


Wilmington, VT.

Wilmington, VT.

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Published: 189?

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Consists exclusively of black & white photographs of Wilmington, Vermont; no text.