Ruth,
In the day, in southern Vermont, you could have your driver's silence
test in Springfield, Bennington on Wednesdays and Brattleboro (Brat) and
Rutland on Mondays and Fridays. I failed my first test in Brattleboro
because the emergency break didn't hold on a hill. As for fame in Brat,
I believe William Morris Hunt hails from there and there are a few major
Parlor Piano makers as well. The Godfather to my eldest son lived in
Brat and he had a lover that killed the mayor in the sixties... Luv
triangle... Remember that?
Best,
Leland
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Barton
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 12:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [BP] You say veranda(h), I say ramada
Down in Brattleboro, the shopping town for this area, pop. about 9,000
on a busy day, there is a park at the foot of the hill by the old
railroad station which is now a museum. A few years ago some fella
built these things out of slender tree branches. He wove them, I guess,
somehow, anyway they ended up looking like giant upside down bird nests.
They were sort of cool. This past summer there was some talk of
removing them but I don't go down there very often so don't know if they
did or not. Ruth
At 12:55 PM -0800 11/29/04, Cuyler Page wrote:
We slept under a traditional ramada built by Papago Indians in our yard
while living at artist Ted Degrazia's compound outside of Tucson in
1964-6.
We had two ramadii in the yard. Neither was attached to the adobe
house.
Beautiful natural desert all around. Woke to coyotes walking past a
few
yards away and California Quail sitting on the curly iron bed frame in
the
morning. Woke in the ultimate dark to watch the great comet of 1965
that
stretched a quarter of the way across the perfect desert night sky out
there with no electric lights for many miles.
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Ruth Barton
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Dummerston, VT
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