Preservation Magazine

A Town for all Seasons

Grafton, Vt., is as alluring today as it was two centuries ago. But for one family’s vision, it might have disappeared.

By Stephen Jermanok | From Preservation | January/February 2010

 It's early December in the foothills of Vermont's Green Mountains, and with the maples shorn of their autumnal color, I am walking along a wintry backcountry road, heading to the town of Grafton. Long gone are the seasonal tour buses, the bumper-to-bumper leaf peepers. And except for the gentle sound of the Saxtons River winding beside me, I am immersed in silence, trekking under a canopy of gently falling snow.

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