[FreeTheHostages]

Well, having been born and raised in Bennington, Vermont, I would have been happy to share some Vermont stories today, but for a cold that has kept me going through the bare motions.

If you ever go to Bennington, there's a Bennington Battle Monument which looks like a mini-Washington monument. My favorite tourist location in Bennington has to be the Old First Church, in Old Bennington, just yards from where the Ethan Allen boys would get drunk at the old Catamount Inn before rousting some 'yorkers.

As a little girl growing up in Bennington, I was told the story of the Green Mountain boys over and over again.

I marched many a time, with my alto saxophone, in the local parade every August 16th: Bennington Battle day.

Fun fact: The Battle of Bennington was fought across the line in New York State!

[Mama_Bear]

I didn't know you were from Vermont! If I had, I would have asked you to collaberate with me on this post. But, since you are suffering with a cold, you probably wouldn't have felt up to it anyway.

Vermont certainly seems like a beautiful state. I would love to visit someday. It was fun putting this tribute together, but there was so much more I could have included. I just didn't have the space for it all. Especially about the Green Mountain Boys and Ethan Allen. Quite an interesting group of vigilantes they were. According to what I read, Ethan Allen was the only one who could control them, and they would follow him anywhere.

Thanks, freezie, for your contributions and recollections about your state. I hope your cold gets better soon. Nothing as miserable as a summer cold........unless it is a winter cold. LOL.

[longshadow]

Trivia time:

Who is the doctor in this Norman Rockwell painting, and in what town in Vermont did he practice?

http://images.allposters.com/images/SLV/NR0307_a.jpg

Hint: he was a staff member at the Putnam Hospital.....