Bennington, VT

September 4, 2014 we moved the trailer down Hwy 7 to Bennington and the beautiful Pine Hollow camp ground.   The next morning we headed out to do some serious sightseeing.   Our first stop was at the Robert Frost Stone House Museum in South Shaftsbury, Vermont where he wrote "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" in 1920.   The exhibits are educational and literary, featuring Frost's life  and poetry.   They made you feel that you had met him and his family.   From So. Shaftsbury we drove north to the Sugar Shack outside Arlington, VT.   Norman Rockwell and his family lived there for many years before moving to Stockbridge, MA.   The Sugar Shack has a vast collections of Rockwell prints and souvenirs of many types.   We had seen this collection several years prior and at that time met a woman who had posed for Rockwell.   While we were there this time, we met the niece of that same woman who was visiting with her husband from South Carolina!  

After lunch we visited the Bennington Battle Monument, a 306 foot spire that dominates the Bennington skyline.   On our way back to camp we stopped at the Old First Church in Old Bennington where Robert Frost is buried.  

Jean at the entrance to the Stone House Museum

In front of the Stone House

At the Bennington Battle Monument

With a friend at the Monument

The Old First Church