Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Factory is quite a popular tourist destination in Vermont. But while most people go there to sample flavors, see ice cream being made, or to check out the gift shop, I had a different agenda. Up on a hill a bit to the...
I am fully aware that this is a very, very dumb addition to the site. And I don’t care. When I was little, I read nothing but ghost and cryptozoology books. One monster I was particularly fond of was Champ, Lake Champlain’s monster, the US version of Nessie....
Lots of pics. Go get some nachos. When one hears the word “museum” they tend to think of large, ugly buildings full of ugly, boring stuff. Fortunately, the Shelburne Museum is not your ordinary museum. Not in the slightest. While there is some art on display, there is...
A silly little stop in Vermont on one of our New England trips. New Haven was on the way to Shelburne & Burlington, so we figured why not. It’s strange enough the grave is a mound, but….what’s that on top of it? Some sort of window? Can you...
I had read about this cemetery in Barre, VT, on Roadside America. The graves are all granite; many are beautifully carved and detailed, while some are just bizarre. There’s also a small fountain in the center of the graveyard, which looks like it hasn’t been working for a...
Now this is a roadside oddity – a chapel for dogs on a hilltop. Everything here, and I mean EVERYTHING, has to do with dogs….even the doorknobs and banisters. There’s even a doggy door for the chapel. This was an interesting ending to our trip to Vermont.
