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GREEN MOUNTAIN TIMBER FRAMES
Luke also pointed out that timber framing remains, even now, an unusually low-waste craft. Wood chips become mulch or return to the forest floor. Around the Larsons’ shop, they go into the heirloom garden. The contrast with commercial construction— its plastics, its piles of waste— is not lost on him.
For Luke and Sarah, then, this work is about more than nostalgia. It is about stewardship, material knowledge, sustainability, and continuity. It is about making sure that the next generation inherits not only the buildings, but the wisdom embedded in them.
“ These old Vermonters,” says Luke,“ though burdened with daily hard work and worries, were prescient enough to think of those coming after them; we can learn from them to do the same for those who follow us.”
In many ways, that perspective defines one of the most enduring qualities of Vermont: a steadfast commitment to its past— the land, the culture, the people— with an eye to the future. When outsiders think of Vermont, they often envision rolling green hills, grazing cows, white clapboard church steeples, and Ben & Jerry’ s. But they also think of a place where the long ago past mingles with the present. A place where extended pockets of no service still exist, and where an annoyed-looking farmer sitting on his tractor can still give incomprehensible directions. A place where that farmer might likely be working the same land his great-great-grandfather did, and where the frames of old English barns first raised over two centuries ago— now repurposed into beautiful homes or studios— are still standing.
At least that’ s the Vermont Luke and Sarah Larson hope still exists long after their generation has passed the torch of preservation to the next one. This is their legacy; one they hope future generations will continue to see along highways and dirt roads from Brattleboro to the Northeast Kingdom. n
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