It Happened in Vermont: Stories of Events and People That Shaped Green Mountain State History -- Mark Bushnell, Paperback
From a cross-border Confederate attack to the underdressed men from Maple Corner, It Happened in Vermont looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of the Green Mountain State.
- Learn why a militia sent to defuse a dangerous mob of striking miners ended up handing out their own rations.
- Read about the shocking "ball of light" that descended upon early twentieth-century Burlington, exploded--knocking a horse senseless--and then rapidly shot back up into the sky.
- Follow two of America's founding fathers as they traveled through the state, revelling over the region's flora and fauna and recording their impressions of its residents.
- Discover what caused "the year without a summer," when trees turned black and crops fell victim to intermittent hard frosts and snowstorms interrupted by short intervals of intense heat and drought
- Relive the terrible flood of 1927 that wreaked havoc in communities along the Winooski River and its tributaries, killing eighty-two people and washing away homes, bridges, and railroad tracks
Author: Mark Bushnell
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing
Published: 1/1/2021
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62 lbs
Size: 8.5" H x 5.5" L x 0.49" W
ISBN: 9781493041367
