VERMONT

MUST SEES

• Celebrate the bicentennial of President Abraham Lincoln’s birth at Hildene, the mansion that was home to his son, Robert. Fascinating tour; glorious grounds. Just outside Manchester.
• Near Burlington, the Shelburne Museum is a treasure trove of Americana. In the 39 buildings, many historic, are quilts and folk art, furniture and Impressionist masterpieces.
• In Woodstock, visit the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and the Billings Farm & Museum, a working farm dating from 1871. Watch the bald eagles, hawks and falcons at VINS, the Vermont Institute of Natural Science.
• In Bennington, the Bennington Museum is known for having the largest public collection of paintings by folk artist ‘Grandma Moses’.
• At the Vermont Teddy Bear Company in Shelburne, you can see bears being made and even design your own cuddly toy.
• The Athenaeum in St Johnsbury looks like a gentleman’s club but is actually a public library and art gallery. The highlight is the vast Domes of Yosemite, painted by Albert Bierstadt.

Vermont

...the landscape offers an enchanting patchwork of tiny villages with clapboard houses and white churches between swooping fields dotted with traditional Dutch barns in pastel blue, primrose yellow or red... Joanna Walters, The Observer www.vermontvacation.com