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1954, WINTER - Merry Christmas Inc. of Pittsford, Vermonters, Skiing on Dutch Hill in Heartwellville, "Ski-O-Ree" festivities in Lyndonville, Celebrating Christmas Eve, Vermont's North Country, Paintings of winter scenes, Winter scenic photo portfolio, Photographer Bob Bourdon, Spavin Cure makers Dr. B. J. Kendall Company of Enosburg, Ice cutting. Buy this issue.
1954, AUTUMN - The Forest and Farmland Foundation in Rupert, The Windham County Hotel and Jail, Thoreau's visit to Vermont, Stamford Valley, Chittenden and the Barstow School, The C. H. Dana Co. in Hyde Park outfits cows, Autumn scenic portfolio, The Drury Brick Co. in Essex Junction, St. Michael's College, The way it was--farming with the simple tools of yesteryear, Ralph Ray builds a log cabin in the Northfield Mountains. Out of Print.
1954, SUMMER - Fletcher Farm Craft School, Newbury's Cracker Barrel Bazaar, Ferns, Camp Abnaki in North Hero, The colors of a Green Mountain summer, Garden tours, Vermont's golf courses, Lumberjack roundup at Lake Dunmore, Horseback vacations, The Monroe Skyline, part of the Long Trail, The Schurs create Eden in Danby. Out of Print.
1954, SPRING - Asbestos operation in Lowell, Fence viewers, The Country School of Photography in South Woodstock, Springfield Town Manager Les Giddings, Restoring Cay Hill, a Vermont farmhouse, St. Albans Bay, Covered Bridges of many types, Dean Hill's maple sugar party in Underhill, Family vacation on Lake Champlain, Walleyes, Franklin County Extension Agent Ralph McWilliams, Review of Vermont Tradition by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Out of Print

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1953, WINTER - A.W. Gray's Sons horse powered machines in Middlebury, The Carthusian monastery in Whitingham, Skiing in Vermont, Winter scenic photo portfolio, Sailing on ice, Life in the town of Canaan, The Vermont Country Dance Festival, Farming in the winter, Christmas in the mountains, Flying a Navion 35H, Rutland's annual Charity Ball. Out of Print.

1953, AUTUMN - Pa'tridge hunting; Waterbury birch; Land of the quiet hills; Shelburne Shipyard; Silversmith Joseph Skinger in Alburg Springs; The Vermont touch: neighbors help out in West Dover; Some Vermont ways; "Small potatoes"; In Vermont a little slower (Byron Morse and son, George); Autumn scenic; Family feast: the Vermont Turkey; Church suppers; A taste for figures: mathematical prodigies Zerah Colburn and Truman Safford; Homo Vermonticus: Elmer Houghton; Walter Colby -- East Wallingford's harness maker; Powers Chair Factory in East Lyndon. Out of Print.

1953, SUMMER - Little Rocky Pond; Inventor Julio T. Buel's fishing lures; Lake Willoughby; Independence Day in North Danville; The Johnsons of Eagle Tavern in East Poultney; The Wright Art School in Stowe; Shelburne Museum; Touring Vermont on a bicycle; Birds of Vermont; Collector's items: Nature's claystones; Barton serves sugar on snow to summer visitors; Ballard pottery; Haying in Vermont. Out of Print.

1953, SPRING - Vermont School of Agriculture, Lincoln Iron Works in Rutland, Living in Vermont, University of Vermont's College of Medicine, Cushman Colonial Creations in North Bennington, Gay Blade Vermonters, The Jigger Central Electric Railroad in South Royalton, Trout fishing, Maple sugaring, Water dowsing. Buy this issue.

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1952, WINTER - Vermont's book wagons, Country vet Ray Dumas, Winter at Concord Corner, Ethan Howard's Christmas tradition, The story of Bromley Mountain, Country children, The Chittenden County mills, The mystery of a wooden rooster, Rug-hooking in Pittsford, Human hibernation, Brud's Husky Farm in Hartland. Out of Print..

1952, AUTUMN - The Allen Homestead, No. 28 in Fitch's Grant; 1927 Flood; Vermont at the Eastern States Exposition; Newell Green's autumn portfolio; Hop raising; Fall in Waterford (scenic); From an Attic in Athens (poem); YWCA sponsors Wives from Overseas; October adventure: Back road exploring; Let's go coon hunting!; The Vermont house in England; The lost treasure of St. Francis; Hoot, Toot & Whistle: the Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington railroad of Readsboro; Edlund of Vermont: manufacturer of kitchen tools.Out of Print.

1952, SUMMER - A historic boat ride on Lake Champlain, The trout of the Battenkill River, Buggy riding, Artist Maxfield Parrish, The Floating Island of Lake Sadawga in Whitingham, The town of Stowe, Wild flowers, Country cooking, Auctions, The F. H. Horsford Nursery in Charlotte, The Kurn Hattin Institution in Westminster. Buy this issue.

1952, SPRING - The Wells River theater, Maple sugaring, A Vermont home, The saw mill in Irasburg, A school house, Fairdale Farms in Bennington, Grandmothers play basketball in South Royalton, Green Mountain Junior College in Poultney, Rudyard Kipling's Vermont house, Fish hatcheries, Restoring homes, Maple recipes, Beaver day. Buy this issue.

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1951, WINTER - Vermont Christmas trees, The barrel-stave bronco winter sport, Plymouth's gold rush, Norwich University, Ice fishing in Vermont, The United States national men's downhill ski championships at Stowe, Photographer Mack Derick, The Eastern Magnesia Talc Company of Vermont, Growing up on a farm in Pittsford, Vermonter Bruce MacDonald, Postage stamps. Buy this issue

1951, AUTUMN - Stratton Mountain's section of the Long Trail; Arlington's Carl Ruggles: renown composer and noted painter; The Whites of Bradford put on a country wedding; Statesmen Joseph and Benjamin Wait left their mark on early Vermont; The Sargents of Bethel and their Bambi; Dewees Cochran of Norwich makes dolls to resemble their owners; The science behind the colorful autumn leaf; Apple time in Yankee-land; Autumn scenic portfolio; Harrington Meats; Bennington College; Architect Paul Thayer builds houses with personality; Vermont rifles and riflemakers. Buy this issue.

1951, SUMMER - The Wilder Dam, Building the floating bridge in Brookfield, The Brigham Farm in St. Albans, Artist Oliver Tarbell Eddy, Covered bridges, Camp Hochelaga in South Hero, Vermont's pipe line, Elmer Gove of the Champlain View Gardens in Burlington, Volunteer farmers, The Lake Dunmore sailing club, A Lake Champlain vacation, Middlebury Youth Hostel, The East Dover Volunteer Fire Company. Buy this issue.

1951, SPRING - Celebrating Memorial Day in Grafton, Vermont's new government, A new sugar house, Ferns of the Green Mountains, Vermont farm cooperatives, The National Survey in Chester, Author and artist Rowland Evans Robinson, Goddard College in Plainfield, Apple blossoms, The Hardwick tulip festival, Budd Hawkins' garden seeds, The St. Johnsbury Trade School, Angler George Fuller Carleton. Buy this issue.

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1950, WINTER - Norwich University's mountain ROTC training program, Vermonter John Dewey, Skate sailing on the lakes, Portraits of Vermonters, Winter trees, The Lane Manufacturing Company in Montpelier, Skiing, Lyndonville's Winter Carnival, Woodcarver Herbert Wilcox, The tale of the little red schoolhouse in Townshend, The University of Vermont's Kake Walk, The Blessed Sacrament Church in Stowe, Oxen in Vermont. Buy this issue.

1950, AUTUMN - Johnson Teacher's College, Extra-curricular activities, Contrary Country by Ralph Nading Hill, Vermont's railroads, The Hartland United Church chopping bee, Lisle McIntosh's mincemeat, The stone buildings of North Chester, Harvest dance, Northern art, Lake Champlain's Ticonderoga sails again, The Watkins Chincilla Ranch in Springfield, The Old Stone Church in Weathersfield Bow, The beauty of November, Green Mountain Woodcrafters in Bristol, Vermont's turnpikes. Buy this issue

1950, SUMMER - Preserving the land, The 1810 Barton River disaster, Horseback riding, Restoring a Grand Isle barn, The Northeast Kingdom, Middlebury College, Historic buildings of New England, The film Green Mountain Land, The churches of Wardsboro, Blunderbuss Academy in Brookline, Vermonter James P. Taylor, The Crowley Cheese Factory, Golden Guernsey cows. Buy this issue.

1950, SPRING - Bee day in Lyndon, The challenge of salmon fishing, Green Mountain Sportsmen's Show in White River Junction, The Brookfield Center Congregational Church, The burning of the Casey Bridge in Moretown, Vermonter Frederick Billings, The history of National Life Insurance Company in Montpelier, A maple sugar party, Franklin County Maple Festival, The Fleming Museum in Burlington, The Havens House in Clarendon, Town meeting day, Explorer Elizabeth Taylor, Vermont's boy scouts. Buy this issue.

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