Sherman : Let ’ s talk about Vermont . When did you first discover Vermont ?
Mestel : I discovered Vermont about 30 years ago . I came up with a friend of mine whose girlfriend had a house in Newfane . We stayed there for the weekend , and I absolutely loved Vermont . I was young , it was very rural , and I had never seen anything like it before . I had been to Brattleboro a few times when I was at UMass , but I had never gone skiing in Southern Vermont , and I had never been further north than Brattleboro . I bought my first place in Vermont in 1988 , and then my wife and I bought our current house the year we got married in 1995 . Our three kids have grown up here . Vermont , I think , is the greatest place in the world . It ’ s absolutely the only place in the world I can relax .
Sherman : Do you have any favorite family traditions here in Vermont ?
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Mestel : We have so many . We ski together at Stratton Mountain , and we always spend Thanksgiving here . My son and I love the buffet at the Equinox Hotel in Manchester for Thanksgiving or Christmas — especially the bread pudding . I have so many memories of having water gun fights with my kids on the lawn , swimming in my pond , having snowball fights , and building snowmen . There really isn ’ t anything you can ’ t love about Vermont . Everything here is just incredible .
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