Maggie's Farm

Meticulous lawns befitting a Rockefeller. Right, BD, it's just a little too perfect to get the idea of a real working dairy farm. I can remember milk in bottles coming from this dairy when I was a kid in the '50's. Telephone number was 3 digits as I recall, you rang up central to reach the number in those days.

Woodstock is is just a little too idyllic, just a little too perfect. The local PD generates traffic violation fine $$$ from unsuspecting tourists and truckers to put a sleepy southern town to shame. And don't even think about building anything here, it will never live up to the local zoning. Personally, I think Saratoga Springs NY is much more delightful in every way as a vacation place. And it is NY, not New England, which I see too much of most of the time.

Vermont was/still is considerably behind the rest of the country in catching up with the 20th C. and a majority it seems would like to keep it that way in terms of economic growth. But VT is at a crossroads with serious budget problems that will require major re-thinking of the state's fiscal, education, regulatory and economic growth policies.

See www.vermonttiger.com for a serious discussion of the crisis facing the state - you won't find it in the mainstream media who still trumpet the left liberal line. But those days are over, they just don't realize it yet and remain in denial. Many Tigers believe that a Democrat governor in 2010, along with a re-elected far left legislature, will finally push the state over the edge by 2012 and perhaps then the sane people can start putting Humpty Dumpty back together again.