[.30Carbine]

One of the best day trips is a visit to the Coolidge Birthplace in Plymouth Notch. The site is the entire village as it existed during Calvin's lifetime...the store he helped his father run...the very bed he was born in is still there...the latern and Bible that were present when his dad, a Notary Public, swore him into office as our 30th President, August 3, 1923 at 2:47 a.m.

[.30Carbine]

Take a virtual tour of the Calvin Coolidge Birthplace!

[Billie]

Wanted to especially thank you, .30Carbine, for all your wonderful, informative posts this morning! If all Vermonters are as hospitable and helpful as you are.....let's all go to Vermont!

[Mama_Bear]

I discovered that there are lots of famous people from Vermont, including two Presidents. I just couldn't get everything in. I had no idea there was so much to say about your state.

Sherman Adams governor, East Dover
Chester Alan Arthur U.S. president, Fairfield
Orson Bean actor, Burlington
Calvin Coolidge U.S. president, Plymouth
Thomas Davenport inventor, Williamstown
John Deere inventor, Rutland
George Dewey admiral, Montpelier
John Dewey philosopher, educator, Burlington
Stephen A. Douglas politician, Brandon
James Fisk financial speculator, Bennington
Wilbur Fisk clergyman, educator,
Ralph E. Flanders senator, Barnet
Horace A. Tabor silver king, Holland
Justin Morrill politician, Strafford
Richard Morris Hunt architect, Brattleboro
William Morris Hunt painter, Bratleboro
Elisha Graves Otis inventor, Halifax
Moses Pendleton choreographer
Patty Sheehan golfer, Middlebury
Joseph Smith religious leader, Sharon
Ernest Thompson actor, writer
Rudy Vallee singer, band leader, Island Pond
Henry Wells pioneer entrepreneur, Thetford
Brigham Young religious leader, Whitingham

[FreeTheHostages]

.30Carbine, my Dad's middle name is "Calvin" -- after the President who didn't want to be a President

wvnan, I'm sure .30carbine would agree: Vermont has changed a lot in the last 25 years. I lived there from 1960 to 1978 -- when it was mostly like the 1950's in the rest of the country