THE COMMUNITIES OF THE SHIRES
Sunset on Cedar Hill Road , Pownal VT Photo Courtesy of Joe Cruz @ joecruzpedaling
POWNAL
The town , in Vermont ’ s southwest corner , is tucked up against Massachusetts and New York on two sides .
The Green Mountain ridgetop is the beginning of the 273 miles of Vermont ’ s Long Trail , the oldest long hiking trail in the nation .
Lewis Hines ’ s 1910 photo of 12-year-old “ little spinner ” Addie Card in a Pownal cotton mill was used on a U . S . postage stamp in 1998 .
Get off the main road ( Route 7 ) for beautiful views . Ramble up Carpenter Hill Road from the south and the entire landscape of the Shires will open up before you as you pass through 300-acre Southern Vermont Orchards , once part of the largest privately- owned orchard in the world .
In 1970 Hillary Clinton often weekended at a farm cabin in Pownal with her boyfriend while she was a law student at Yale ( the weekends ended when she met a new guy named Bill ).
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