So they came to us
View of Willoughby Notch and Mount Pisgah, in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom
“‘Away,’ most of us called anywhere more than five miles beyond the county line. Or ‘the other side of the hills.’ All I knew for certain is that since we could not go to them, the mind readers and barnstorming four-man baseball teams and one-elephant family circuses came to us.’’
— From the novel Northern Borders (1994), by Howard Frank Mosher (1942-2017), set in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, where Mosher lived in the town of Irasburg.
Lord's Creek Covered Bridge in Irasburg.
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