‘If you discount their stubbornness’

Scene from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington, Vt.

“Look. And smell. Breathe deeply. Feel the air; touch it now and sense its purity, its vigor, its super-constant juvenation (that supposedly has given Vermonters their long life — if you discount their stubborness.’’

— Evan Hill, in The Connecticut River (1972)

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“Vermont is a land filled with milks and maple syrup, and overrun with New Yorkers.’’

— John L. Garrison, in 1946