| Show MOUNTAIN state na t nel V ax 4 I 1 x ya I 1 A 4 N I 1 e A 19 1 r 4 s little country store in room of which calvin coolidge was borr prepared bv na 1 nna 1 G n na ir rf drapl 1 lo 10 n C hashii liton D 0 N WU W N U 9 service 1 6 to tile na tion turned recently recent li fig as the lost hebting place ut of calvin coolidge has a story d efferent from froin that of most of its sister states its story Is more than a recital of feta sties it Is more than a review of the liber of organs and scales there annually arid and far in mno lie Inter interesting sting lhnn nu flu eti e ti mate of the number of miles of pub lie buildings which ich could be faced each year with mth its maible ini tible and granite arnd roofed alth mh its slate it lius haa elements elein cuto of a drama it hns has faced not seven but seventy lean years in the seventy years from to 1020 1920 the census returns show that the population increased only 10 to or 38 a little lettla more no re than 12 per cert during this same period the increase for tile the united states as a whole nichole aas aa more than 3 10 per cent in the tin sears from 1910 1010 to 1920 the number of vermonters Ver actually decreased yet the future scenes bright enough to the men and women naomen of the green mountains the outsider may perhaps be for given if lie hopes that its prop prosperity erity cleall lie no more than modest and that it shall not interfere greatly with vermontis Ver monts present status ilor for at t Is today one of the most truly american 0 of our states its people have hardly changed to in their essin bial elements in a centuri rarely one in nine Is foreign born and the majority of these are canadian and therefore american vermontis Ver monts dramn drama Is rooted in that fact its people are a dinnin lc lot har hart I 1 hitting besom cef ul enar gaic restless in the enus census en us of 1700 1790 it wa a shown chrit of the total population of 81 S 15 43 1 4 5 3 81 00 were ere of stock and scotch its ita young men left the oncoming beats bio bi ought tight few dIf different Terent factory the names one finds mcday lit in Aerni ermont ont were on the eat eail lest records chere was inas I 1 little ittle to be candid about it in vencent prim 1 t to tempt immigration in the last fifty beirs ye irs of the past century there as everything even everN tiling thing outside to tempt cm ignition emigration ille hie young men left just its as boung scotsmen Sc otmen fco 10 to I 1 ion on don iovina rich prairies called the farmer who ho lint had stumbled oer er monts s roky rocky hills hill once f lined for merino sheep it became the in heritor of the spanish cron when the roial flocks nere ere d un der the threat cf Nopo Is apoleon leons s inja slon it sow saw them under the pressure of necessity llie cicato located in rich bt torn tom lands wen held field of course but in the pioneer dibs fa banners built cabins on hill shoulders for the sake bake of the early ni orning rea sur ance of a neighbor g s plume of cL across the valley M irn of these hill 1111 farros farms le became juie economic lh in I 1 possible today th dili 3 cow Is t aking tile place sheep once ald in scheme e of things the LOW LOM must le fed ft d all al winter inter i I 1 n i g but she lie naun dantly repays milk trains through tile winter enos to gith er cans calls at enen eer cios wont milk train roar through the aln boun 1 for the grit eastern itie Iti 3 tills this achievement has fills inteli bid ben made linde possible b the cren creation tion of new nen facilities tier her armous mart le Ind one shrinks from state ment menti i hut but dermint Is vord certain there can be no grenter marble quarries in ili the worl N orl I 1 ha I 1 not been thought of the al alcind nind e at mont pelier the v was as bu bit t 0 grit granite nite front from tile the famous guari quartiles qu ariles le which have hae niale N vermont ermant the 1 lender r a among it g th the 0 states in tile alue of tilli this stone supplied for mona mental puri purlous osis rich in marble and granite isa sy if one sees nothing pie in armont pr mont he chall I 1 sie re the Ini arble s and tile the granite nv arks or s where armies of ik k tied tilen men equipped clipp eki with the lanct in test en gin ivring arf rf t hilge of st tie frow from tte tt e stoles ri rah i mountain id e ingv funi lit s atre re lit nill out of the ill 0 I 1 ow 11 1 in noi northern thern ermont it in tl it i iriv irav ans azon awn ti i 1 1 is h t 1 r I 1 i ti kv and tin t i 1 0 o one tin thi a antu pt ot t 1 Is of if UI lii 1 n i irl of 1 t 1 i I 1 so velh tale talc rind and slate and tin thi ther other 0 mineral riches which mitch arp arc nov no being slowly developed nor did anyone suspect that tier rounded alls h I 1 its and lovely dales would some time offer a promising vacation ground at a profit to the thou sands aa ads in ili the great cities within a bev ew hours ride leoday vermont la Is it a cheerful cht chi erful sunny independent little state in which A aich life admittedly presents more difficulties difficult les than lit in lands N lic ielli one may inny live on breadfruit but it IB 1 ill more worth woith whelp it is distinctly 1 not given to hero bero Norsh worship lp find and it has a I 1 humor that might trace to its caledonian A calm ackar common wealth it Is too with mth ft a distaste for rebellion against au dhority but with a abne capacity for it on occasion willing that each shall worship or ship god in his own way intent upon getting the dollars worth but not falsely valuing the dollar hospitable ns as aie few 8 stales tat es in I 1 13 these da dais s of the easy road every town has its peak not a single town in vermont la Is without its eminence there tire are OW peaks whose hose sumin its fire are i 2 feet or more above sea level the northeast corner nn an area perhaps 50 miles by 60 50 Is i in effect a wilderness bears roam there and deer and landlocked sal eat tuon nion are to be caught in lakes rarely been ty ry man elsewhere the mountains seem more hospitable tallest mount fansel fd 4 feet high can be reached by automobile over good though steep roads and all are ac itle to hikers bikers aliis lilt Is a state of lakes too for there are approximately from luke lake champlion Champ liln miles long between tween the green mountains and the ilo to mere potholes potholed pot holes gli inking in hill fastnesses fast nesses and of little rnald rivers which slow blow down don lere I 1 ere nud there into placid reaches wacie heie tie hungry trout leap at dm diw it for thirteen years vermont was an all independent inda acri lent republic ti viking its 0 own I 1 laws a is maintaining its ita own army coining inq 1 oi own n money it was nas a contumacious and stiff necked community fordering for during this period it was mas not only in rebellion against england hut but was as carrying on a lively p prante chate fight of its own with the state of new boik and the congress cou gress A records that ver mont was as never anything an thing but free alever a crown cronn colony never yield ing allt glance to any pro province ince or kingdom hen she was nas N as as the fourteenth state to the Ame ilcin in union after the rev alution had been won by her loval ild it was upon uon her own onn terms Cham plains voyage her v history begins on july 4 some friy tuly 14 on which late date samuel de cham flan ria n discovered the late laic which he heirs irs his name and which Is our largest body or of fresh katr cuts lc the gre it I 1 on oil tint thit voyage the de douht iab with tits hla algon quin hots hosts against the iroquois and so 0 assured the friendship of the lat ter powerful poiN erful tribe to the british anlo were nere to come liter it his hig teen argued that this may have decided the future overloading over w lording of this continent inho ho knows knos I 1 f arst french settlements on isle igle I 1 in n motte iotte were not permanent N litte men did not come to stay until when settlers who had wiped in from the massachusetts riv r iv built a blockhouse block bouge at lort 1 ort dummer tre site rite of the present city of Brattle bore here timotha noth dwulit was as born in 1720 three of his descendants through i inmate with N ith mars laughter daughter of rev jonithan FI edwardi ard were lere to become I 1 rpm lents of yale tale this IQ if worth noting because vermont talks more of her roen men than of her marble or slite ite or granite more alore than onte Is tile lie cautious int nt has furnished furni sled cd a gretter number of men to chos hos vihn nho relative rt atle to population than any other state 70 one begins to name the dis sons anns of the state one ars to he be on overwhelmed er 3 ift et it must I 1 e r tit mi n berel acrel tt tl at for defendes doc niles tin till v atre cre almost the only export ille predict arh ct and hp leit their tri n e as through amerl ameri in history |
