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Vermont
Vignettes in Word and Line
Collected from old souces by Germaine LeClair
and Ida Washington
Illustrated by Sheila Mitchinson
If you love folklore stories from the past, this is the
book for you! Here we have a collection of stories, many never before
published, about the "good old days" in Vermont. In word and line they
show life in an earlier era and particularly the clever rogues living
it.
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Carleton's
Raid
Ida H. Washington and Paul A. Washington
The secret orders read: "Destroy all the supplies,
provisions, and animals which the rebels may have assembled on the
shores of Lake
Champlain . . . destroy all the boats . . . as well as all the sawmills
and gristmills which could have been built in the area." The threat of
an American invasion of Canada triggered a major attack in 1778 which
violated the trust the American colonists had placed in the British and
resulted in widespread and cruel hardship for the men, women, and
children
who lived in the Champlain Valley. (more...)
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