Writing on the trail

View of Mt. Mansfield on Vermont’s Long Trail

The Ompompanoosuc River, a tributary of the Connecticut River. Its headwaters are in Vershire, on the eastern side of the Green Mountains.

“In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in {Vershire} Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods. Now I go hiking with a bunch of my comedy buddies. We talk about our emotions. I also do a lot of writing on hikes, just to get the blood flowing and the ideas moving.’’

Nick Kroll (born 1978), American actor, comedian, writer, and producer.

Vershire was named "Ely" in 1880, after the Ely Mining Company, which mined copper. This changed in 1883, after 200 miners struck and seized the mine, leading the National Guard to be called out to suppress the miners. You don’t think of New England having such mines, but there were a bunch of them in northern New England, in the 19th Century.