Here are some land marks, historic sites we saw: Bennington Museum: houses largest Grandma Moses art and memorabilia available to the public; Old First Church: Oldest church in VT, built in 1805; Bennington Battle Monument built in 1880 dedicated to the Battle of Bennington during the Revolutionary War in 1777; we traveled along Rt. 7A North and saw The Robert Frost House built in 1769 – home to the poet from 1920 to 1929; Mount Equinox: rises 3,848′ above the village of Manchester, VT and one of the highest mountains in Southern N.England. ; Hildene: once the estate of Robert Todd Lincoln the only surviving son of the 16th President of the US, Abraham Lincoln; Equinox Resort & Spa: 17 separate structures with over 200 yrs. of history, 6 architectural styles and visited by 4 different American Presidents; American Fly Fishing Museum; Orvis Shops; Old Marble Quarry; Green Mountain National Forest; Scott Bridge: longest covered bridge in VT; Mount Snow (all you skiers know where this is!).
We made it back to the Inn around 5 PM and raced around a bit to get ready for the banquet. The banquet, although fun time with the group, and OH YIPPEE! … bottled wine, was poor by way of food. Ted and I are too picky. The hosts of the tour did a SUPER job – no complaints there. We just don’t enjoy a lot of pasta. That’s basically all there was- well, more for the meat eaters but not much for vegetarians and the group doesn’t seem to be lovers of fresh vegetables…hmmm. We did win a nice bottle of Amaretto and aperitif glasses.
After that, we crashed. Stomachs were comlaining about the strange foods that had been dumped into them.