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C a m e ls H u m p a n d S m u g g le r s N o tch Jim Deshler P A G E 3 W a lk in g th e d o g , U n d e r h ill Carol Sullivan P A G E 4 S p r in g b lo sso m s, P la in fie ld Jeb Wallace Brodeur P A G E 5 H o ir s L a k e , W est N e w b u r y Jacob Ellis vermontlife.com spring 2011 vermontj jUa rPost-Modern Manners First Impressions Lizzie Post, great-great-granddaughter Inside VL of Emily Post, sorts out contemporary etiquette from the family base in The Arts Burlington Selections from the arts scene, including The Trouble With world beat star Kailash Kher and a new Butchers season at Shelburne Museum Vermont prides itself on a farm-to-plate Free Time culture, but the system breaks down at meat processing In Burlington, an explorer’s town, the pleasure is in the discovery TBeer Loves Cheese At long last, the perfect pairing of two Vermont staples fFirst We’d Like to Say California has more sand. Texas has bigger hair. New York has more Knickerbockers. But when it comes to certain other things, Vermont is No. 1 in our book Giving Fleece a Chance A former sheep-turned-dairy farm looks to alpacas for its future Out to Eat O Cooking in Season Restaurants to enjoy in Burlington, Spring begins with maple Londonderry, Montpelier, Norwich and Rutland J ^ O n e in 625,741 Every Vermonter has a story, including Alex Crothers of Higher Ground ËS^Vermont Observed Small World "1 i n s i d e VL 'VjLRjVJOFJ' r"r' marketing plan. But nostalgia, by its very nature, implies wistfulness, a longing for better days gone by. Times change. Over the last six decades “newcomers" have arrived in pursuit of their own American Dream. Back-to-the-land hippies, starving artists, ski bums and rat-race refugees 1946 Autumn ,/ir$r t5suir looking for a real job and a real life have been drawn to Vermont and its enduring values. People here still work hard, value self-reliance, enjoy the outdoors, cherish the landscape, help their neighbors and think for themselves. Vermont today is a welcoming place where roving butchers (“The Trouble With Butchers," page 42) and Emily Post's family (“Post-Modern Manners,” page 36) feel equally I n a N e w L i g h t at home. The genius of Vermont, in short, has been its I N 2009, New York Times columnist willingness to evolve. David Brooks wrote an article about the 949 Spring Today were the healthiest state in the country, changing nature of the American Dream. Brooks the greenest state and, per capita, the state with the painted a portrait that included neither manicured greatest number of local dollars spent buying local lawns nor chic urban living. Instead, he argued, the food (“First We’d Like to Say,” page 56). Vermonters new American ideal involved living in "places where today are forward-thinking. you can imagine yourself with a stuffed garage — And we are all in this together. The dairy filled with skis, kayaks, soccer equipment, hiking farmers who remain are some of the sharpest boots and boating equipment." businesspeople around. They’ve had to be, to As Brooks describes it, Americans today survive. And other farmers, whether raising alpacas strive to live in a place “where spectacular (“Giving Fleece a Chance,” page 60), yaks or organic natural scenery is visible from medium-density greens, are indebted to dairy farmers for their neighborhoods.” These places have “loose social perseverance. Without them, new-school farms structures and relative social equality ... strong would not have had the infrastructure to build on. social identities and pedestrian meeting places. Likewise with the ingenious business owners They offer at least the promise of friendlier who continue in this difficult economy to keep our neighborhoods, slower lifestyles ... historic downtowns working, or the entrepreneurs Sound familiar? who opt to locate in beautifully preserved We experience this new American Dream buildings. They’re grateful for our past, but every day in Vermont, and with this redesigned focused on the future. issue of Vermont Life, we hope to reach beyond That's how Vermont works. The Vermont way our new logo, new paper and new features to is a living legacy. Viewed in this light, Vermont’s fully capture its spirit. best days are always right now. It’s a new direction for the magazine, to be Vermont Life co-founder Lyman Orton once wrote sure, to focus so fully on today and tomorrow. that the thing that sets Vermont apart from other When Vermont Life began in 1946, places is “the prodigious feeling that when you hear Americans had endured two world wars, the about Vermont you get homesick. It’s the wonderful Great Depression, constant social change and feeling that when you get here you’re home.” rapid industrialization. The pastoral life, the Welcome to the new American Dream, and the simple ways, growing up on the family farm new Vermont Life. Welcome home. were real, living memories for many people. Nostalgia for a simpler time was powerful. From its start, Vermont Life identified with that sense of nostalgia ... it was part of the original Mary Hcgarty Nowlan, Editor 8 Vermont life vermontIife.com