Just ignore the Canadian smoke

Looking west toward the Adirondack Mountains and Lake Champlain from Charlotte's, Vt.

— Photo by Niranjan Arminius

Riverbank restoration project along the Connecticut River in Fairlee, Vt.

”Look. And smell. Breathe deeply. Feel the air; touch it now and sense its purity, its vigor, its super-constant rejuvenation (that supposedly has given Vermonters their long life — if you discount their stubbornness).’’

— Evan Hill, in The Connecticut River (1970