Fall Guide 2010 (Section A)

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Addison County guide to the best autumn has to offer!

ALL FOLIAGE

2010 Where to go and what to see to enjoy the Addison County area

Calendar of Events Dining Guide Foliage Tours Cultural and Recreational Activities

A special publication of the Addison Independent

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About this issue: Welcome to the Champlain Valley during beautiful fall foliage. From the Green Mountains to the east and Lake Champlain on the west, the Addison County region has some of the most diverse scenery in the state and one of the longest periods of peak leaf peeping. We capture some of the local beauty in photographs by Trent Campbell throughout this guide. But the region is more than just pretty mountains, picturesque farms and our beautiful “west coast.” The towns of Addison County and Brandon are steeped in history, awash in the arts and culture, and have plenty to see and do. Check out the calendar at the beginning of the B section of this guide to get some ideas of things to do, and look for the twice-a-week editions of the Addison Independent to get the latest calendar items and news. Middlebury is the region’s center, with Middlebury College a must-see for any tourist. Its magnificent campus is home to art galleries, performances by big city talent and plenty of sports (for

a good view of the mountain scenery, check out the football stadium). Downtown Middlebury has its own museums (the Sheldon Museum and the Vermont Folklife Center), lots of shops and plenty of restaurants. But be sure to venture from there. Addison sports the Dead Creek Wildlife Refuge teeming with wild geese and fowl of great diversity. Orwell is home to one of the last undisturbed Revolutionary War sites in the country — Mount Independence. Bristol, Brandon and Vergennes offer smalltown life at its best with fun things to do and all the needed amenities. Read the stories in this guide about biking and running in the fall and then hit the back roads and trails of our beautiful region. Want to stick to your car? See detailed maps on pages 10A and 11A for some loops to drive and soak up the scenery. This publication is meant as a guide to some of what this area has to offer. We’re sure you will find it worth the trip.

Inside: Antique farm equipment displayed.......................... 8A Apple picking and finding an iPod ..........................7B Biking the back roads ............................................ 12A Calendar of events .............................................. 1B-6B Cultural, historic & recreational sites .............13A-18A Dining guide .................................................... 9B-24B Favorite fall holiday — Halloween ...........................8B Festivals celebrate local foods .................................20B Foliage tours...................................................10A-11A Get lost in a corn maze ............................................ 5A Made in Middlebury .......................................22A-23A Map of county ....................................................... 20A Migrating birds and wildlife .................................... 4A Running in the fall................................................. 19A Why leaves change color ..........................................9B Woofstock celebrates pets ........................................ 3A

About the cover There is plenty of color in Addison County in the fall — color in our gardens and fields as they fill with ripe fruit, color in our cheeks as the temperature moderates, and, of course, color in the beautiful leaves on the trees, such as on the color of this Fall Foliage Guide. Independent photographer Trent Campbell made this image in Ripton last year.

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Woofstock event offers a chance to honor our pets MIDDLEBURY — Human beings aren’t the only locals who enjoy a crisp fall day. Many of our domestic pets will be the focus of an autumn celebration this Oct. 2. That’s the date that the Addison County Humane Society will honor the animals with Woofstock, an annual walk and festival at the Middlebury Recreation Park that runs 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ACHS invites everyone to grab their pooch and pound the pavement in a group walk that can end up looking more like a parade than leisurely stroll. The event not only presents a good chance to enjoy your pet, but also to raise funds for the ACHS shelter. Walkers can participate as individuals or as teams. Bring a dog and walk

for the animals (although no one is required to have a dog to walk and raise money for ACHS). Walkers can pick up pledge forms at the shelter, download them at www.addisonhumane.org, or raise funds online at www.firstgiving.com/ addisonhumane. The fun doesn’t stop with the walk. Folks are invited to have a dog-gone good time at the Woofstock Festival for the Animals. Activities include artists and vendors, great food and music. Green Mountain Disc Dogs and K-9 police units will perform demonstrations. This year personality Rusty DeWees, known around Vermont at “The Logger,” will judge a pet costume contest and pet look-a-like contest.

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Dead Creek Wildlife Day: Hands-on fun for the family ADDISON — The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department will hold the ninth annual Dead Creek Wildlife Day on Saturday, Oct. 2, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area in Addison. Whether you make it to that terrific day of fun and educational events or not, the refuge on Route 17, just 12 miles northeast of Middlebury, is a treat for bird lovers and nature enthusiasts. More than 200 species of birds have been sighted in the wildlife management area. Flocks of Canada and snow geese annually make their stopover here on their migration flights north and south. And a few of them stick around all year along with many other species of wild birds. Look for growing numbers of birds from the Route 17 viewing area beginning in late September and lasting into the third and fourth weeks of October. The Dead Creek area includes 2,800 acres of state-owned land, a large section of which is barred to hunters or birders. But the remaining 2,200 acres are open to public use for canoeing, hunting and birdwatching. Most of it is wetland. Geese are not all you can witness at this natural area. Marsh-dwelling birds such as marsh wrens, soras, common moorhens, pied-billed grebes, American and least bitterns, and black terns may be seen or heard. Great, snowy and cattle egrets have been sighted here. Many species of ducks occur, both during breeding season and migration. Shorebirds stop here during their migration. Other birds include many species of songbirds, woodpeckers and raptors, including ospreys, northern harriers and short-eared owls. You may see a bald eagle — the Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area was the site for a few recent summers of an effort to encourage bald eagles to nest in Vermont. Upland game species are American woodcock, ruffed grouse and wild turkey. One may possibly observe the grasshopper sparrow, a state-threatened songbird.

But geese are definitely the area’s return yearly to the place where they biggest calling (or honking) card. were born, each year thousands arSince 1950, there has been a Goose rive. These migrating geese of the Management Atlantic flyway Program in effect Dead Creek Wildlife follow a natural which initiated instinct to minesting sites here. Day allows people grate in October, In 1956, 44 wild to learn more about and the third Canada geese, the natural world. week in October half of them male, is the time to see half female, were The day’s activities peak populations. trapped, pinioned are especially for Be sure to dress and released in people who enjoy brightly in the the 70-acre fenced fall as it is a very area. This section hunting, fishing, popular hunting contains ponds birdwatching, or spot. and feeding and A total of onelearning about nesting sites. The and-a-half million hope was that Vermont’s diverse Canada geese folthe geese would wildlife. low the Atlantic establish a local flyway each fall. breeding area. They winter priBy 1960, nesting had begun. Since marily in Maryland, North Carolina that time, there are between 200 and and along the rural section of the 300 goslings hatched annually. New Jersey coast. Since Canada geese almost always Experienced birders say that the

best times to go looking here are early morning or late afternoon when birds are feeding. Take binoculars, a bird book, a pen to record new species and a camera. If you don’t take these things, you’re sure to spot at least two completely new species. A viewing area can be found along Route 17 in Addison. A good resource for finding out more about local wildlife is the Otter Creek Audubon Society, which is online at http://users. gmavt.net/hkarlson/oca. Dead Creek Wildlife Day allows people to learn more about the natural world. The day’s activities are especially for people who enjoy hunting, fishing, birdwatching, or learning about Vermont’s diverse wildlife. The location is the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources’ Fish & Wildlife Department Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area on Route 17,

about a mile west of Route 22A in Addison. A wide variety of activities, workshops and presentations will take place in and around the tent set up there. Scheduled events throughout the day include a bird-banding demonstration, soap carving, a fly-tying workshop, a workshop on turkey-hunting techniques, a presentation on bees, working dog demonstrations, a presentation on turtles, a nature walk and more. There will also be special all-day activities, including face painting, bluebird-box building, no-shoot simulated target practice, snow goose viewing, hands-on decoy carving and more. Dead Creek Wildlife Day offers events to entertain and educate the whole family, for an hour or for the entire day. Events and parking are free. For more information go to www.vtfishandwildlife.com.

GEESE SOAR OVER the Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area in Addison during their annual migration south. Learn more about Vermont’s great outdoors during Dead Creek Wildlife Day on Oct. 2. Independent photos/Trent Campbell

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THE WEYBRIDGE GARDENS corn maze begins life as a pencil sketch. The final design is then transferred to graph paper for mapping, plotting and cutting in the actual cornfield. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

This cornfield is ‘a-maze-ing’ Weybridge field offers hours of family fun By ANDREA SUOZZO WEYBRIDGE — When Audra Ouellette sits down to sketch on a standard-size sheet of paper, she does it with the knowledge that her drawing will soon be recreated on a grand scale. The ultimate canvas for her work is huge — it’s a 9-acre cornfield. But that doesn’t faze Ouellette. For the third summer running, she and her sister, Kris Bowdish, spent countless hours in their Weybridge cornfield, carving out winding paths through knee-high stalks in preparation for the fall. The corn maze forms the centerpiece of their business, Weybridge Gardens. The land they use, off Thompson Hill Road, belongs to their family. Before the sisters created the first corn maze in 2008, the land had sat fallow for many years. “It had a lot to do with our interest in doing something ag-oriented, but not dairy farming,” Ouellette said. “Our family is a third-generation dairy farm family.” Bowdish added that the idea of a corn maze had a greater appeal for them, since it was a unique and family-friendly activity. “Growing up here, we know there isn’t a lot to do,” she said. “There’s definitely a need for local family stuff. We feel like we’re filling that niche.”

So for the third year running, Ouellette started with a theme, then spent hours creating a new design for the maze and plotting it on graph paper. She said the sketches eventually cover the entire kitchen floor while she is working on them. Creating the mazes has been a

natural extension of her longtime interest in art. “I’ve always enjoyed art, and I took a lot in high school,” said Ouellette, who also works as an aide at Weybridge Elementary School and a 4-H leader. “I did a few jobs in advertising,

and I took a few college classes in art and photography,” she explained. “I’m really glad I get to use that, and put it on the earth.” After the sketch is finalized, Ouellette and Bowdish head out into the fields to mark the paths with tape and cut the stalks down. After that,

AUDRA OUELLETTE, LEFT, Alexis Ouellette and Kris Bowdish stand in the cornfield they turned into this year’s Weybridge Gardens corn maze. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

it’s a matter of waiting for the corn to get taller. “We’re actually really proud of the artistic makeup of our mazes,” said Bowdish, who is an officer in the Middlebury Police Department. “We could drive a tractor through and create a maze in a day. You’d get lost in it, and you’d have fun. But you wouldn’t have the overhead photo to show for it.” Bowdish and Ouellette said that when they were looking at other corn mazes, before they’d started on their own, they saw some simple ones, with no real design to speak of, and some more elaborate labyrinths where the creators had hired designers to create the actual maze. decided that they could create the designs on their own. “Ours is very labor intensive,” said Bowdish. “It’s probably not the best business plan, because we put a lot of hours in.” But they enjoy it, and bringing people in also gives them an opportunity to sell their vegetables — which, this year, are just pumpkins. They’re finding that each year brings larger and larger crowds — the sisters estimated that they’d seen close to 2,600 people come through the maze in their 2009 season, which didn’t include some of the larger groups from schools. (See Maze, Page 19A)

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ED JAMES, LEFT, and Lee Forgues will host their third annual Farmall Hill Antique Field Days in Shoreham on Oct. 2 and 3. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Duo harvests history with antique machinery Shoreham farm to host Fall field days

until 5 p.m. James and Forgues said that they will have food and drinks, all sorts of demonstrations, wagon rides around the field and even By ANDREA SUOZZO guests who bring their own antique SHOREHAM — It all started machines — farming equipment, four years ago, with an old F-14 cars and trucks. tractor perched in the field above Over the years, James and James Diesel Service. Forgues estimate that they have “We always had old stuff around, accumulated 130 pieces of antique it’s just what we farmed with,” equipment, including about 35 said Ed James, who owns the tractors, a reaper/binder, a cotton mechanic shop off Doolittle Road picker, hay balers and a combine in Shoreham. harvester. Some James’s grandfather of these pieces are had purchased the “On a good already restored, and tractor brand new day, with a some are waiting for in 1939, but it had couple teams tune-ups in what the sat unused in the two call “Purgatory field for many years. of horses, a Row” — a long line of Then James and lot of hay and rusty tractors, trucks Lee Forgues, his other equipment good workers, and employee, decided to tucked under the trees see what they could you could along the border of do to restore it. make upwards the field. “It’s just become an These machines obsession since then,” of 300 bales. pose a stark contrast With today’s said Forgues. to the ones they have Now the two have technology, already restored, more antique farm which boast shiny, equipment than they you can make retro coats of paint in can store on the 300 bales an bright red and green. property, which they hour.” The two are have named Farmall nowhere near done — Lee Forgues Hill after the first with their collection, general-purpose and they are still tractor brand, released in 1923. actively seeking out old and unusual Though James and Forgues store pieces of equipment. Forgues said some of the equipment in other that this has gotten much harder in places, they bring everything back recent years, since people all over to Farmall Hill for a weekend the country have been selling off of demonstrations every year in old equipment to scrapyards for the October. price of the steel. This year, the third annual Farmall Still, they recently added another Hill Antique Field Days will take hay baler to the collection, and place Oct. 2 and 3, from 9 a.m. they are able to grow and process

many of the crops that they use for demonstrations entirely with their own collection. “We’ve got pretty much a piece of equipment to do every aspect,” said Forgues. “From planting to harvesting right down to grinding the grain after the thresher.” This year, the two even tried growing a crop of cotton plants — “the only cotton crop in all of Vermont,” they explained — to use with their mid-20th century cotton picker from Missouri, though most of the plants have already died. Still, the ones they have left are developing bolls, and they hope that they will at least be able to display the ripe cotton plants next to the harvester come October. Forgues and James have a field of corn that they’ll harvest with an antique corn picker for their field days event, and they already have a trailer full of cut wheat for the event, grown just down the road at Golden Russet Farm. They cut it with a reaper-binder from the 1940s that cuts the crop and binds it into small packages, and in October they’ll separate the wheat using one of their most recent acquisitions from Quebec, a harvest combine that they estimate is also from the 1940s. With the straw that is separated from the chaff, James and Forgues will run their oldest piece of equipment — a hay baler from the very beginning of the 20th century. “It’s very labor intensive. Takes five people to make a bale of hay, plus a horse,” said Forgues. “On a good day, with a couple teams of horses, a lot of hay and good workers, you could make

upwards of 300 bales. With today’s technology, you can make 300 bales an hour.” That’s pretty much the case with all of the equipment that the two

collect. Everything takes much longer to do with the older versions of the equipment. But for James and Forgues, restoring the machines and (See Antiques, Page 9A)

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Antiques (Continued from Page 8A) demonstrating them is not about efficiency. For them, it’s about knowledge of old farming traditions. “If we don’t keep it “If we don’t alive, it’s going to be keep it forgotten about,” said alive, it’s Forgues. going to be And beyond that, the two have fun with their forgotten collection. Forgue said about.” he gets very involved — Lee Forgues with the look of the equipment, removing the rust and painting the old gems. “I like the challenge of getting an old machine running,” said James. “It’s a very minimal

amount of electronics, and no computers.” He said that the antiques are different from the shop handles on a day to day basis. “When you got an owner’s manual for the tractor, it would tell you how to overhaul the engine and take it all apart,” he explained. “Nowadays it’s lucky if they tell you how to check the oil.” Reporter Andrea Suozzo is at andreas@ addisonindependent.com.

A HORSE-POWERED HAY press is a new feature at this year’s Farmall Hill Antique Field Days. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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Discover Addison County’s Back Road Splendor

Fall Foliage Road Trips 1 Hour: From Middlebury, travel south on Route 7. East on Route 125, passing the Waybury Inn (this year there is some road construction on Route 125 so take your time and plan on adding a few minutes to the trip). Turn left at the Ripton Country Store and follow this road north to Lincoln (partially a dirt road). Head west out of Lincoln down the mountain to Route 17. Travel Route 17 west through Bristol (where you may like to stop for lunch at a variety of dining establishments) and on to Route 7. Left on Route 7 traveling south back to Middlebury.

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2 Hours: Leaving Middlebury, take Route 125 west to Chimney Point (where you may like to stop and visit the Tavern Museum or DAR’s John Strong Mansion Museum and State Park). Take Route 17 east to Addison, where you will pick up Route 22A and head north into Vergennes (the smallest city in the United States). Note: Vergennes has some of the most interesting buildings in Victorian architecture. In Vergennes, take Monkton Road east. Cross Route 7 and continue east to the village of Monkton Ridge. At Monkton Ridge turn right onto Bristol Monkton Road, heading south, and continue to Bristol. In Bristol take Route 17 west to Route 7 and head south on Route 7 back to Middlebury.

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From Middlebury, take Route 30 south to Sudbury, where you pick up Route 73 and travel west to Larrabee’s Point on Lake Champlain. You may want to cruise the lake at Mount Independence leaving from Larrabee’s Point, which is home to the Fort Ticonderoga ferry. Continue north on Route 74 passing through historic Shoreham. Take Route 22A heading north. In Bridport take Route 125 west to Chimney Point on Lake Champlain. Follow Route 17 east. At the West Addison General Store, known locally as WAGS, bear left off Route 17 and, staying along Lake Champlain, head north on Jersey Street. Left on Basin Harbor Road and head north, passing beautiful Button Bay State Park, where one might want to stop and picnic past the Basin Harbor Resort. Backtrack on Basin Harbor Road into Vergennes where you pick up Route 22A and travel south to Addison. Take Route 17 east to Route 23 and Route 23 south back into Middlebury. (See map, Page 11A)

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4 Hours:

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From Middlebury, take Route 7 south to Route 125. Route 125 east through East Middlebury and Ripton, (watch for road construction) passing the Robert Frost Wayside Recreation Area, the famous Middlebury College Bread Loaf campus, crossing over the Middlebury Gap (elevation 2,149 feet). Proceed down the mountain (also known as the Robert Frost Memorial Drive), into the town of Hancock. Take Route 100 north through the town of Granville, watching on your left for the beautiful Moss Glen Falls. Continue north into Waitsfield, where you will pick up Route 17, and follow it west through the Appalachian Gap (elevation 2,365 feet), until you come to Route 7. Take Route 7 south back to Middlebury.

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3 Hours See Description on Page 10A

Day Trip: From Middlebury, take Route 7 south to Route 125, Route 125 east over the mountains to Route 100 in Hancock (again, take care in case Route 125 is not completely in working order, but the hassle isn’t great). Take Route 100 south to Stockbridge, where you pick up Route 107 and drive east to Royalton. In Royalton take Interstate 89 (known as one of the most beautiful interstates in the country) and head north, passing Vermont’s capital city, Montpelier. In past years, the Independent has directed travlers to get off the interstate at Middlesex (Exit 9) and take Route 100B south to the town of Waitsfield, but bridge construction on 100B this year means that you should take I-89 all the way to Waterbury (Exit 10) and follow Route 100 to Waitsfield. In Waitsfield, pick up Route 17 and head west over the Appalachian Gap (elevation 2,365 feet) to Route 7. Follow Route 7 south back to Middlebury.

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Biking through Addison County: A great way to view foliage

will score you plenty of foliage — Route 116 By ANDREA SUOZZO ADDISON COUNTY — During is a favorite for many for its good mountain September, when the autumn cool begins to views. While a bike ride can be just the thing creep around the edges of the late summer warmth, you can be sure that somewhere in for seeing the countryside, it is important the mountains the leaves have already begun to keep in mind safety on the road. Jalbert to change. As the color crawls down into the recommended getting off of the main valley, what better way to get out and see it thoroughfares — there is less traffic on smaller roads, which makes them both quieter than on a bike? and safer. “It’s a relaxing, slowCrocker had some other road paced way to enjoy the safety advice for bikers: foliage,” Caroline Jalbert, the • Ride single file unless there administrative assistant and is a very wide shoulder leader operations coordinator • Don’t ride in the gutter — at Bristol-based Vermont Bike it will make you harder to see on Touring, told us last fall. “And the road. Instead, ride three feet there’s good riding for every out on the road. level.” • You have the same rights Easy and beautiful bike routes and responsibilities as a motor abound in the valley — townvehicles — always obey stop to-town bike rides between signs! Middlebury, Vergennes, Bristol • If you are biking with and Brandon offer ample children, make sure they know opportunities for lunch breaks, the rules of the road. and side roads offer gently • Beginning in mid-October, — Caroline Jalbert rolling hills and picturesque wear bright colors in order to farms. avoid hunters. And for a challenge, just head Once you’ve gotten past the safety into the mountains. “The best routes depend on the time of concerns, you’re all ready to plan your fall,” said Justin Crocker, manager of the ride. A convenient planning tool is www. mapmyride.com, which allows you to plug Bike Center in Middlebury. The first trees to take on vibrant colors are your route into Google Maps. You’ll get high in the mountains, so if you are biking elevation, street names and satellite maps of early in the season, it’s best to find a route your planned route. As for local routes, check out www. with elevation. Even in the valley, though, any route with a view of the Green Mountains champlainbikeways.org. Their Heart of Vermont Bikeways brochure, which you can download from their Web site, offers nine Addison County bike routes, complete with maps, step-by-step directions and descriptions of the attractions along the way. For a start, block out a nice weekend and try one of the following three routes.

“It’s a relaxing, slow-paced way to enjoy the foliage. And there’s good riding for every level.”

MIDDLEBURY TO SNAKE MOUNTAIN

THE SEAT OF a bicycle is a great place to view the fall colors. The annual Kelly Brush Century Ride in September brought more than 700 bicyclists to Addison County this year to raise money for spinal cord injury research and support. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Rating: Medium Total distance: 20 miles From downtown Middlebury, head west on College Street, then make a right on Weybridge Street, also known as Route 23. Continue on Route 23 and follow until the road intersects Route 17. Turn left on 17 and follow for about two miles. Take a left on Mountain Road. After about 2.5 miles on Mountain Road you will come to a parking area on your right. The Snake Mountain trailhead will be a couple hundred feet further along the road. The trail is a nice 3.6-mile round trip hike with great views of the Adirondacks, if you’re not too tired. To return to Middlebury, continue down south Mountain Road and make a left onto Mountain Road Extension, which will turn into Forrest Road. Turn left on Lemon Fair Road, which will run straight into Route 125 and send you right back into Middlebury. For a slightly longer route, follow Mountain Road until it becomes East Street, then turn left when it crosses Route 125 and follow 125 into Middlebury.

MANY ADDISON COUNTY roads provide dramatic views of fall colors. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

VERGENNES TO MIDDLEBURY

Rating: Medium Total distance: 28 miles (Adapted from Champlain Bikeways route) From Vergennes town green, turn right onto Main Street. After 0.7 miles, turn left on Hopkins Road (which is unpaved). In Waltham, turn left onto East Road and continue as it turns into Otter Creek Road. Turn left onto Route 17, then right onto Route 23. Follow Route 23 into Middlebury. For the return trip, head north on Main Street through downtown. Turn left onto Seymour Street (just below Route 7) and follow it as it turns left at Greg’s Meat Market. Cross the historic Pulp Mill Bridge and make a right onto Morgan Horse Farm Road. Continue on the road as it turns into Pearson Road (after crossing the Otter Creek on the Rattlin’ Bridge) and then Green Street, which leads back to Vergennes.

MIDDLEBURY GAP TO BRANDON GAP

Rating: Difficult Total distance: 47.1 miles (Adapted from Champlain Bikeways route) Start in East Middlebury. Head east up Route 125 past Ripton and the Bread Loaf campus, to the top of Middlebury Gap (a rise from 407 feet above sea level to 2,149 feet. Follow Route 125 down the gap until you reach Route 100 in Hancock. Turn right on 100 and continue for just over 5 miles, passing through Rochester. Make a right on Route 73 west and climb to the top of Brandon Gap — the elevation change here is from 873 feet above sea level to 2,184 feet. After the descent, make a right on Route 53 and bike past Lake Dunmore. Make a right at Upper Plains Road, then a left at Beaver Pond Road. A right on Lower Plains Road will bring you back into East Middlebury.

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MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART College Museum Showcases 40 Years of Acquisitions from the Friends of the Art Museum September 17–December 12, 2010 MIDDLEBURY, VT- On Fri., Sept.17 the Middlebury College Museum of Art opened its doors to all members of the community for an exhibition made possible through the commitment and involvement demonstrated by the Friends of the Art Museum (formerly Friends of Art) over the last 40 years. Since the group’s inception in 1969 the Friends, an association of alumni, community members, faculty, staff, and students of the College, have used their membership dues to obtain new acquisitions for the College’s art collection and to support educational outreach programs for the benefit of the community. The opening of the Christian A. Johnson Memorial Building in 1968 marked the beginning of the campaign to gather a permanent collection of art for the College. The Friends, along with faculty members from the Art Department, heavily aided these early efforts and helped to shape the identity of the collection over the years. While the Museum has moved from its original location in the Johnson Building to the Mahaney Center for the Arts and is now run by a full-time dedicated staff, it is impossible to ignore the integral role played by the Friends in its establishment. The success of the Museum has served to strengthen both the College and the local community. Middlebury students have benHiram Powers, Bust of Greek Slave, c. efitted from an acquisition strategy based in part on using art as 1850-73, marble, 24 1/2 x 16 x 7 1/2 inches. Middlebury College Museum a teaching tool in classes, while programs like MiddArts and the of Art, gift of the Friends of Art and Museum Assistants Program have helped enrich art curriculums the Salomon-Hutzler Foundation, for schools in the surrounding area. The Friends have always cor1970.006 (Photo: Tad Merrick) roborated the importance of these initiatives, exemplified by their creation of the Awards for Distinction in the Visual Arts, given annually to recognize significant contributions to the visual arts in Addison County. This exhibition, celebrating four decades of generosity, includes 40 objects purchased using funds raised by the Friends. With an extremely diverse display of works—ranging from an ancient Chinese mirror and black figure lekythos (the Friends’ first ever acquisition) to works by modern masters such as Chuck Close and Jasper Johns—Friends Bearing Gifts demonstrates the overarching impact that the Friends of the Art Museum have had on all areas of the Museum’s permanent collection. Through this special exhibition, the Museum acknowledges the achievements and generosity of the community of Friends that remains as essential to the Museum today as it was at the time of its establishment.

Giuseppe De Nittis, Study for Alle Corse, c. 1874, oil on panel, 5 x 9 1/4 inches. Middlebury College Museum of Art, purchase with funds provided by the Friends of Art Acquisition Fund and the Christian A. Johnson Memorial Fund, 1989.007 (Photo: Tad Merrick)

Friends of The Art Museum Gala

Organized by Chief Curator Emmie Donadio and Director Richard Saunders, the exhibition remains on view through Sun., Dec. 12. A wide range of viewpoints is reflected in the labels that accompany the works displayed, as current and past faculty and alumni in a range of disciplines have contributed to the information presented with the objects on view. An illustrated survey of the history of the Museum and its community of Friends, with an essay by Donadio, will also be available for purchase at the Museum Store. Friends of

Put on your festive cocktail party best for this gala celebration and The Art Museum enjoy food, drink, music, entertainment, and a chance to see the retroGALA spective exhibition, Friends Bearing Gifts: 40 Years of Acquisitions from October 16, Saturday the Friends of the Art Museum. Jubilee Jazz Band 7–9 p.m., then a 70s 7:00–11:00 p.m. Dance Party from 9–11 p.m. Presentation of three possible art purchases Mahaney Center for the and vote to select the Friends’ 2010 gift to the Museum at 9:15 p.m. Arts Lobbies Can’t attend? View the works at the Museum after September 17, and and Middlebury cast your vote ahead of time. Tickets $50 per person, or $25 per person College Museum of Art for entry after 9 p.m. (new members only), available through October 11 at the Middlebury College Box Office online or by phone at (802) 443-6433. This celebration is graciously sponsored by Lapham & Dibble Gallery, Timothy W. O’Brien Investments, The Lodge at Otter Creek, and Ingrid Punderson Jackson Real Estate. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, located in the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Rte. 30 on the southern edge of campus, is free and open to the public Tues. through Fri. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sat. and Sun. from noon to 5 p.m. It is closed Mondays. The Museum is physically accessible. Parking is available in the Center for the Arts parking lot. For further information, please call (802) 443–5007 or TTY (802) 443–3155, or visit the Museum’s website at museum.middlebury.edu.

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EDGEWATER GALLERY

SHELBURNE FARMS

At Middlebury Falls

Edgewater Gallery offers exquisite artworks and fine crafts by established and emerging artists from Vermont and beyond. Here you’ll find an eclectic, dynamic, and high-value mix of collectible paintings, photography, ceramics, glass, wood, jewelry and more at a variety of prices. Located in Middlebury’s picturesque downtown, Edgewater’s historic mill building overlooks Middlebury Falls, the town’s iconic natural masterpiece. Since the late 1700s, this Mill Street site in the former manufacturing hub of Middlebury has been the home to businesses whose contributions to the town have been vital and long-lasting, including Stillman Foot’s saw mill, and the country’s first state craft center. Today, Edgewater Gallery participates in the art community on a local and national level. As we support Middlebury’s artistic revitalization we continue the tradition of offering Vermont’s creative excellence, with an expanded palette that showcases artists from other regions. Our spacious gallery with elegant displays highlights works of art you can enjoy in your own home, and provides an unforgettable experience that will stay with you beyond your visit.

Middlebury Falls, black & white photograph, Tom Way

-September Featured Artist of the Month: Janis Sanders. Bold and bright land and seascape paintings. -October Featured Artist of the Month: Julia Purinton. Atmospheric, narrative landscape paintings. -Group Exhibit: Free Range: Animals in Art. September 14-November 12.

A day at the Farm Shelburne Farms is a 1,400-acre working farm and National Historic Landmark whose mission is to cultivate a conservation ethic by teaching and demonstrating the stewardship of natural and agricultural resources. There are daily property tours, eight miles of walking trails, a Children’s Farmyard with farm animals and a chance to help with chores, and spectacular scenery and buildings. The Farm is open for tours until Oct. 17. 32nd annual Harvest Festival celebrates Vermont’s Farms and Forests Celebrate autumn’s abundance with family and friends at the 32nd annual Shelburne Farms Harvest Festival on Saturday, Sept. 25, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It’s a day to honor Vermont’s farm and forestry traditions with marvelous music, delicious seasonal foods, lots of farm animals, and friendly crowds. The Courtyard of the historic Farm Barn and the surrounding fields are filled with excitement on Festival Day, music, dancing, story tellers, educational exhibits, demonstrations and animals. The Green Mountain Draft Horse Association will be offering horse-drawn hay rides, and there are hands-on activities for children of all ages. Education exhibits cover everything from birds of prey to farm animals and antique farm machinery and there are demonstrations by craftspeople, rug hookers, woodworkers, cheesemakers, gardeners, spinners, weavers, a chainsaw carver, furniture makers and many more. There will also be exhibits focusing on alternative energy, reflecting Shelburne

Farms’ commitment to energy self-sufficiency. Food is always a feature of the Harvest Festival with delicious local food from Shelburne Farms grilled cheese sandwiches to apple pie and maple creemees. Admission to the Harvest Festival is free to Shelburne Farms members. Admission for non-members is $8/ adults; $5/children; children under three years of age are free. The event is held rain or shine. For information, please call 802-985-8686 or visit www.shelburnefarms.org.. Contemporary artists in historic lakeside setting -- Shelburne Farm’ Art at the Coach Barn opens Sept. 23 From traditional images to abstract concepts, Shelburne Farms’ Art at the Coach Barn, art exhibition and sale will showcase the works of a broad range of talented artists. This will be the 23rd year for the special event held daily from Friday, Sept. 24 through Sunday, Oct. 24 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the historic Coach Barn on the shores of Lake Champlain. The beautiful lakeside site provides a spectacular setting for the works of 44 artists, many of them from New England, in mediums including oil, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, graphite, etching, photography, metal and bronze.. The exhibit is free with general Shelburne Farms property admission: $8 for adults, $7 for seniors and $5 for children 3 to 17; and free for members of Shelburne Farms and children under 3. Tickets are available at Shelburne Farms Welcome Center. Proceeds from the sale of art benefit Shelburne Farms’ education programs.

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ART ON MAIN FALL EXHIBITS

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

About Art on Main Art on Main is a non-profit community-supported artist-cooperative gallery committed to supporting the creative endeavors of individuals in our community through the exhibition and sale of art and craft, community events and outreach, and through professional development for artists. Our 100-plus artist members hail from all corners of Vermont and exhibit work in a great variety of media from pottery to painting, jewelry to wood, textiles to photography. Women at Play: Annie Caswell painting/ceramics & Jascha Sonis jewelry The August-September Exhibit will highlight the tropical, woman-inspired paintings and ceramic jewelry of Annie Caswell of Burlington, Vermont and St. John, Virgin Islands and the uniquely textured sterling precious metal clay jewelry of Jascha Sonis from Warren & West Addison, Vermont. Annie is inspired by the natural world, cultures and traditions from around the globe, and the human form. Jascha is fascinated by the combination of organic form, ancient ethnic symbols, and current urban designs. Jewelry allows her to use the body as a canvas to decorate in a playful manner. Exhibit on display through September 30. Forest & Field: Cynthia Guild Kling paintings & John H. Clarke wood sculpture Art on Main’s October-November 2010 Featured Artist Exhibit showcases oil paintings by Cynthia Guild Kling and wood sculpture by John H. Clarke, both from Starksboro. Cynthia’s landscapes are a form of visual history recording the natural world around her as fields are “developed,” trees die and are cut down, buildings are lost or moved, and roads are built or widened. John’s wood burl sculptures begin in those same fields, inspired by wildly distorted trees struggling for sunlight, becoming instead dancers, a mother and child, or the north wind. Reception Friday October 8, 5-7pm. The exhibit will be on display through November 15. Glow: Jon Olsen photography & Casey McMains glass Art on Main’s November-December 2010 Featured Artist Exhibit will showcase photography by Jon Olsen from Norwich and glass by Jericho artisan Casey McMains. Jon’s elegant photos, pigment-printed on watercolor paper, capture the landscape in a striking simplicity of light, form, texture, and color. Casey’s works in both traditional blown-glass forms and more whimsical. Fanciful creations will join holiday ornaments, bowls, and vases for this show. Reception Friday December 10, 5-7pm. The exhibit on display November 16 thru December 31.

Archaeology Month at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum – September 2010 Join us throughout September for presentations on Lake Champlain shipwrecks featuring some of our latest explorations of early steamboats, gunboats, sailing vessels and canal boats. Learn what threatens the lake’s collection of shipwrecks and what you can do to help protect and preserve underwater cultural resources. “Shipwrecks” On-Water Tours are half price on Saturdays, and check the web site www.lcmm.org for other special programs, demonstrations in the Conservation Lab, lectures and films. Shipwrecks! On-Water Tour – Saturday, September 25 at 11am (preregistration required, fee includes museum admission) There are over 300 historic shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Champlain. Join an archaeologist from LCMM aboard a tour boat and travel to the site of one of these wooden wrecks to “dive” using a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV). This robotic camera sends back real-time video to an on-board monitor as we share the vessel’s dramatic story. Don’t miss this incredible experience - for all ages! Juried Photography Exhibit – Lake Champlain Through the Lens on view through October 17. Enjoy over 50 outstanding images of Lake Champlain at all seasons and times of day, with inspiring comments by the judges and photographers. Then cast your vote for the “People’s Choice Award.” Storytelling Festival – Saturday, October 17, noon until 5 p.m. Gather in the museum’s intimate theater or in front of the fireplace of an Adirondack-style lodge to experience lake history in song and story. At noon, Russell Van Dervoort will share family stories of adventures passed down through two centuries on the Hudson River, Erie and Champlain Canals. Van Dervoort will autograph copies of his new book, Canal Canaries and Other Tough Old Birds, just published by LCMM. At 1:30, join the student actors of Burlington’s Very Merry Theater for some theatrical activities, games, and a performance of The Velveteen Rabbit. At 3:00, the traditional musicians of Atlantic Crossing team up with LCMM director Art Cohn to offer original songs and illustrated stories of life on Lake Champlain. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum is open daily from 10-5. Picnic on the grounds or get 20% discount at Red Mill Restaurant with museum admission. Come by boat and enjoy over a dozen exhibit buildings, antique boats in the new Hazelett Watercraft Center, and replica historic vessels at North Harbor! For more information call (802) 475-2022 or visit www.lcmm.org.

UVM MORGAN HORSE FARM

The UVM (University of the Green Mountains) Morgan Horse Farm is situated on PAGE 16A — A Special Publication of The Addison Independent, Fall, 2010 215 acres in the lush, agricultural area of Addison County. Colonel Joseph Battell built the main barn in 1878 to house his assembly of the era’s finest Morgans. In 1906, Battell gave his farm and Morgans to the United States government. From 1907 to 1951, the federal government bred, trained, and exhibited many of the breed’s greats. The term “Government Morgan� is in reference to the tremendous impact of Weybridge-bred horses from that period. In 1951, 25 head of A unique and welcoming environment Morgans and the government property were turned over to UVM. Today’s herd of 60-80 horses maintains a genetic link to General Gates – the The cafe is the venue for our live music concerts International Record Label and provides a beautiful atmosphere for any sire of Battell and the Government program. foundation Brandon Music was founded in 2009 as event and is available for party bookings. the new US headquarters of the Divine Art UVM Morgans have a reputation for superior quality on a local and international Record Company. Stephen Sutton started the Our custom order take-out service called available.They are prized as foundation broodstock, and have the diversity in temperacompany in England in 1993, specializing in Harmony in Your Home is alsobasis. the recording of rare and interesting classical ment to be show-ring champions or versatile pleasure horses. music. The Gallery To date, the company has produced almost The University of Vermont Morgan Horse Farm is continuing a legacy of historic In the quaint historic corncrib is our Gallery, 300 CDs, of music from the 14th to the 21st which has hosted commitment to the breed. The maintenance of a permanent center for breed decenturies, over 80% shows of work by of which is not UVM UVMMORGAN MORGANHORSE HORSE FARM FARM localvelopment artists. This fall and promotion is vital to the future. available elsewhere, The UVM (University of the Green Mountains) Morgan Horse Farm The UVM (University of the Green Mountains) Morgan Horse Farmisis situated situated on we are proud to host having been redisThe farm is also215 a215 leading attraction inofthe state, attracting visitors acres in the lush, agricultural area County. Colonel Joseph acres intourist the lush, agricultural area ofAddison Addison County. Colonel40,000 Joseph Battell Battell the new collection covered in archives of work by the great and museums or built the main barn in 1878 to house his assembly of the era’s finest Morgans. built the main barn in 1878 to house his assembly of the era’s finest Morgans. per year. From May to October, 9-4 daily, a slide-tape presentation and a guided Warren Kimble, all newly composed. In 1906, Battell gave farm andMorgans Morganstotothe theUnited UnitedStates States government. government. In 1906, Battell gave hishis farm and of which also for Our catalogue is a touris generate tremendous breed promotion. From 1907 to 1951, the federal government bred, trained, and exhibited many From 1907 to 1951, the federal government bred, trained, and exhibited many sale to collectors. treasure trove for Come visit the UVM Morgan Horse Farm. A look the home of UVM of the breed’s greats. The term “Government Morgan�at isinin reference to the the treall music lovers, of the breed’s greats. The term “Government Morgan� is reference to treSeveral larger pieces whether they are mendous impact of Weybridge-bred horses from thatperiod. period. 1951, 25 25 headmotto: of mendous impact of Weybridge-bred horses from that InIn1951, head of are also displayed in and the Morgans State Animal of Vermont will serve to explain the looking for ancient Morgans government property wereturned turnedover overtotoUVM. UVM. the main building, Morgans andand thethe government property were music, rare classics, along with fine art Today’s herd of 60-80 horses maintains a genetic link to General Gates Gates –– the the “Custodian of the Breed.� Today’s herd of 60-80 horses maintains a genetic link to General contemporary or a

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Music Cafe At the famous red barn formerly occupied by Warren Kimble, the upper floor has been converted into a music cafe, known as ‘Harmony’, where our music is played all day long, and customers can browse at leisure, or just relax with a coffee in the Cozy Corner. The cafe also offers a full English style tearoom service each afternoon from 2pm, with scrumptious cakes, scones and pastries. Boxed loose and bagged teas from leading English brand Taylors are also available.

prints. We also have a range of CDs of famous artists such as Andy Warhol and Connie Breckley among others, performing and talking about their work.

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The Gift Shop The gift shop carries a range of distinctive items, most personally chosen and imported from the UK, including a wide range of vintage English china, glass and linens, hand knitted tea cozies and novelties. Our lines will keep expanding to include antiques and collectibles of many kinds in the future.

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In the Vision and Voice Gallery: September 11 - December 4 After Attica: The Prison Portaits of Neil 1971-1974 Through December 18,Rappaport, 2010

Streetportraits Gang: Portraits in Writing ThisThe exhibitHale brings together created by Neil Rappaport between 1971 and 1974 in theAGreat Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum security photographic Exhibit with sound prison in Comstock, New York, and interviews conducted by Erica Heilman Meetwith theyoung Hale men StreetinGang, twelve senior citizens who over the past two years Vermont’s Return House program once a week to read aloud from their who are making thegather transition from imprisonment to everyday life. memoirsin-progress. Their clubhouse is the Greater Randolph Rappaport’s photographs Heilman’s audio VT, eachanrepresent a complete Senior and Center in Randolph, elderly mansion in body of work that tells its own story. Yet these stories are parallel when a neighborhood south of the railroad tracks. and Together brought together there unexpected resonances. theyare weave a “collective memoir� of life in twentiethAmerica, the village Randolph, Vermont This exhibit opens acentury window into thewith experience of ofincarceration and the as itsinnexus. American penal system order to stimulate dialogue around a social issue that—visibly or invisibly—affects theabout lives ofthe us all. And, it’s never too early to and start touches thinking 12th Annual Gingerbread Competition!!! Entry- forms due November Open Monday - Saturday 10am 5pm.are Sunday 11am - 24th. 4pm

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HENRY SHELDON MUSEUM OF VT HISTORY presents The Nature of Wood: Vermont Furniture and Woodware 1790 to the Present Through October 23, 2010

In celebration of Vermont wood products, the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History is pleased to present The Nature of Wood: Vermont Furniture and Woodware, 1790 to the Present. The exhibit focuses on furniture and wooden objects produced in the lower Champlain Valley. The Nature of Wood combines the Sheldon Museum’s rich collection of locally-crafted furniture with private collections featuring a wide array of Vermont-produced wooden objects spanning the history of the state. The exhibit presents a brief overview of the many beautiful and practical ways Vermonters have made a living creating objects from the rich resources of the Northern Forest. Each month, the work of a contemporary furniture maker will be highlighted as part of the exhibit. The Nature of Wood has received generous sponsorship from Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls and is a State of Craft Showcase Event. The 2010 State of Craft Showcase was organized by the Vermont Crafts Council, in coopSecretary, ca. 1815-1825 Attributed to Norman Jones, East Hubbardton, VT eration with the Bennington Museum, the —Collection of Sheldon Museum Vermont Folklife Center, and the Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing. Walking tours, lectures and special events make the Henry Sheldon Museum a wonderful destination this summer. We’re the prefect place to bring houseguests or children on a rainy day. Come on in!

It’s time to start thinking about the 11th Annual Gingerbread Competition!!! Entry forms are due November 25th.

Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History

Summer is the perfect time for a visit to the Henry Sheldon MuseumAddison County’s community history center. Come and discover daily life in Vermont’s past by exploring the furnishings, clothing and artifacts displayed in the1829 Judd-Harris House. Investigate the history of your family, house or town in the Research Center. Our friendly staff and volunteers are always available to help you make the most of your visits. Browse in our wonderful Museum Shop or picnic in the garden designed and tended by the Middlebury Garden Club.

Museum open Summer through October 17: Tues. - Sat. 10am - 5pm, Sun. 1 - 5pm

Visit our gift shop full of traditional art from Vermont and throughout the Northeast. And, international gifts and crafts made from recycled products from around the world.

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Be sure to pick up your

MIDDLEBURY CULTURE CARD at the Sheldon Museum! For more details, call the museum.

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Weybridge Gardens is

After Dark Music Series begins

our 16th season, bringing some of the best nationally known Blues, Folk, Celtic, Acoustic Performers in an intimate setting at the Town Hall Theater and the United Methodist Church in Middlebury, Vermont.

Garnet Rogers

This season opens with Grammy winner, contemporary Blue-Grass performer, Tim O’Brien and continues with the Canadian, folk baritone, Garnet Rogers. New Orleansbred Americana/bluesman Chris Smither continues and the season ends with Texas, Western-Swing, Hot Club of Cowtown. Light meals and desserts are available at the concerts at the United Methodist Church, and Tim O’Brien desserts at the Town Hall Theater. Please visit our website for tickets and information: www.afterdarkmusicseries. com or call 802-388-0216.

Chris Smither

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home to Addison County’s only Corn Maze, a wonderful outdoor adventure for the whole family. Owners, Audra & Kris, are sisters and third generation farmers from Weybridge. They share a love for Vermont, the community and the land. Their corn maze is a true work of art as you can see from 2008’s aerial photograph. Come see this year’s crop circles.

Support your local farmer! Get lost in their corn field!

Open every weekend until Halloween. Nighttime flashlight mazes start September 17th, Friday and Saturday nights for four weeks. Haunted mazes start October 15th Friday and Saturday nights for three weeks. Hayrides on Sundays and the Boy Scout’s Pumpkin Hurling Trebuchet! Check out their website or become a fan on facebook for the most up to date information.

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recreation.destination 6[eUahWd 6W^[YZf ;`fWdSUf AN OLD WEATHERED sign points the way to the Weybridge Gardens corn maze. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Maze nights, with all sorts of surprises lurking in (Continued from Page 5A) Groups came to study mazes, and teams the shadows. Customers tromping through the dark maze can find the anticipation of came for team-building exercises. Then there are the night mazes, which what’s around the next turn simply terrifying, this year will be running on Friday and Bowdish said. “I’ve seen adults push their Saturday evenings. They instruct children out of the way to run,” participants to bring flashlights, “There’s she said, laughing. and they said it helps to do the And once the corn maze closes maze during the day first — at definitely a night, it’s much harder to get need for local in late October, the sisters finally allow people to look at the your bearings among the tall family stuff. aerial photos of the field. Past corn stalks. years have featured landscapes There’s also a plan for a “Dog We feel like with flowers, cows and human Days” weekend, due to huge we’re filling figures, and each maze has the demand from customers. Dog year it was carved somewhere in Days will be in October with a that niche.” — Kris Bowdish the pattern. Other than that, the portion of ticket sales to benefit sisters are very secretive about the Addison County Humane their design. Society. Owners will be required “The only hint that we have this year is to leash their pets and clean up after them. Then, for three weekends in October, crop circles,” Bowdish said. Reporter Andrea Suozzo is at andreas@ the sisters will transform the labyrinth into a haunted maze on Friday and Saturday addisonindependent.com.

VISIT A WORKING ALPACA FARM!

Moonlit Alpacas invites you to hear an alpaca hum; watch a cria pronk and feel the softness of an alpaca’s luxurious fleece. Alpacas, native to Peru, Chile and Bolivia have a delicate appearance and gentle disposition, along with an engaging natural curiosity. They are hardy earth-friendly animals with clean habits that adapt readily to the Green Mountains of Vermont. Alpaca fiber has long been prized by clothing manufacturers thanks to its natural properties. Alpaca wool is a silky, durable fiber comparable to cashmere. No wonder Incan Royalty reserved the use of this elite fiber for their exclusive use! The fleece comes in 22 natural shades ranging from pure white to true black. Moonlit Alpacas is home to 75 alpacas. Moonlit Alpacas is open Wednesdays through Sundays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment. www.moonlightalpacas.com 802-462-3510

Taking a run in the fall livens muscles, senses ADDISON COUNTY — The temperatures The event supports MALT’s maintenance and are cool and the humidity is low — autumn is improvement of the trail. a great time to get out and get some exercise. The TAM, which is used for hiking, biking Having a race to train for can often make get- and cross-country skiing, encircles the town ting in the miles that much easier. of Middlebury and links several hundred acres Addison County offers several opportunities of town land, conserved properties, schools, for competitive sports for weekend Middlebury College and other lowarriors of just about any age. cal landmarks. The trail journeys Addison An event for runners, hikers through wooded glades and open and bicyclists will be held on the County offields as it passes through four 16-mile Trail Around Middlebury fers several townships and crosses the Otter (TAM) on Sunday, Sept. 26. twice by pedestrian bridges. opportunities Creek The seventh annual “TAM Team Trail users also enjoy breathtakTrek,” also known as the T3, is for competiing views of the Green Mountains hosted by the Middlebury Area tive sports from many vantage points along Land Trust (MALT), a nonprofit the TAM. regional land conservation organi- for weekend Event information, registrazation. The T3 is a run-hike-bike- warriors of tion materials and a TAM map a-thon for individuals and teams. just about are available at www.maltvt.org. Average distance for the sections For more information, contact the of the TAM in the T3 is about 2.5 any age. MALT office at 388-1007. miles. Still want more? Head up the In 2009 more than 100 people participated, mountains on Sunday, Oct. 10, for the 23rd anwith one trail enthusiast completing about four nual Ripton Ridge Run. Ripton will host runmiles of the event on a unicycle designed for ners and walkers for an afternoon of activities, trail riding and about a dozen runners traversing including races, top-finisher prizes, a raffle and the entire 16 miles. a delicious homemade lunch. The event is a Individuals and teams are encouraged to run, fund-raiser for the Ripton Elementary School hike or bike one or more segments of the TAM and features a 10.4K run, a 5K run and a 5K (See Races, Page 24A) and solicit pledges for each mile completed.

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SHAWLS/STOLES from $89

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EXPLORE MIDDLEBURY

A. Rokeby Museum, Route 7, Ferrisburgh. Underground Railroad site and prominent Quaker family farm. www.rokeby.org. Open through Oct. 11. B. Kingsland Bay State Park, Ferrisburgh. Day use, nature path. www. vtstateparks.com/htm/kingsland.cfm. Open through Columbus Day. C. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Ferrisburgh. Traces the history of Lake Champlain, extensive indoor and outdoor exhibits. www.lcmm.org. Open through Oct. 18. D. Button Bay State Park, Ferrisburgh. Overnight camping, nature trails. www. vtstateparks.com/htm/buttonbay.cfm. Open through Columbus Day. E. Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, Route 17, Addison. Home to migrating waterfowl, walking paths, and boat launches. vt.audubon.org/ IBADeadCreek.html. F. Lord’s Prayer Rock, Bristol. In 1891, Joseph C. Greene paid a carver to engrave the Lord’s Prayer on a huge rock sitting next to what is today Route 116. It’s still an unusual roadside attraction. G. Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell. A largely undisturbed Revolutionary War site. Visitors center with extensive exhibits and many interpretive trails. www.historicvermont.org/mountindependence. Open through mid-October. H. Snake Mountain. Parking lot on Mountain Road in Addison. Familyfriendly hike to beautiful vistas of Champlain Valley and Adirondacks. www.vtfishandwildlife.com.

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I. Bixby Library, 258 Main St., Vergennes. Stained glass ceiling illuminates historic library and extensive collection of early arrowheads and other artifacts. www.bixbylibrary.org. J. University of Vermont Morgan Horse Farm, Morgan Horse Farm Road, Weybridge. Beautiful grounds featuring a leading breeding program for state’s official animal. Tours daily. www.uvm.edu/morgan. Open through Oct. 31. K. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, 1 Park St., downtown Middlebury. Tours daily of the Judd Harris House, ongoing exhibits and events. www.henrysheldonmuseum.org. L. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St., Middlebury. Exhibit brings together portraits created by Neil Rappaport at a maximum security prison in the 1970s and interviews conducted by Erica Heilman over the past two years with young men in Vermont who are making the transition from imprisonment to everyday life. www.vermontfolklifecenter.org.

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M. Middlebury College. Campus tours available at admissions office. Event listings available at ticket office. www.middlebury.edu. N. Green Mountain National Forest Ranger Station, Route 7 South, Middlebury. Extensive material available about hiking and camping in the GMNF. www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl. O. Branbury State Park, Salisbury. Day use and overnight camping, kidfriendly sandy beach and extensive grass lawn, boat rentals. www. vtstateparks.com/htm/branbury.cfm. Open through Columbus Day. P. Falls of Lana, Rattlesnake Cliffs, Silver Lake trails access, SalisburyLeicester town line. www.newenglandwaterfalls.com/vermont.php. Q. Mount Abraham trail access, Long Trail, Lincoln. Summit includes 360-degree panorama. www.greenmountainclub.org. R. Spirit in Nature Path, Goshen Road, Ripton. Immerse yourself in nature by walking any of the 10 different paths. www.spiritinnature.com. T. Fort Ticonderoga (across ferry in New York). Preserved Revolutionary War fort with extensive interpretation, guides, re-enactors, gift shop and many events. www.fort-ticonderoga.org. Open through Oct. 20.

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Fall races (Continued from Page 19A) Fun Walk on Ripton’s scenic country roads during peak foliage season. Entry forms will be available online at www. riptonridgerun.org or by calling the Ripton Elementary School at 388-2208 and leaving your name and address. Registration fees are as follows: adults The Ripton Ridge Run will $20, or $30 if postmarked after Oct. 5; traverse rural children (15 and unroads through der) and seniors (65 Ripton and the and over) $13, or $20 Green Mountain if postmarked after National Forest Oct. 5. Registration fees include a homeand include made lunch and, for water stops. the first 175 paid enThe 10.4K trants, a long-sleeved course will be 100-percent cotton T-shirt commemoratrun countering the race. Lunch clockwise this may be limited to the year. first 200 registrants. Courses will start and finish at the Ripton Elementary School on the Ripton-Lincoln Road. They traverse rural roads through Ripton and the Green Mountain National Forest and include water stops. The 10.4K course will be run counter-clockwise this year. Racers should check in at the Ripton Elementary School beginning at 11:15 a.m. The races begin at 12:30 p.m. For more information, call the school at 388RUNNERS TAKE OFF down the Ripton-Lincoln Road at the start of last year’s Ripton Ridge Run. Fall is a great time to get out and get 2208 during school hours or email riptonridg- some exercise. erun@gmail.com.

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