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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-04 10:53 PM
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Vermont? Vermont? where are you people?
*crickets*

*crickets*
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david_vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 10:41 AM
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1. Here!
Sorry. I don't come to DU very much anymore. Every once in awhile, I take a peek, but I don't haunt it like I used to.
I know there was at least one other DUer who lives somewhere up near Swanton, but can't remember her moniker.
You would think that there'd be at least 3 dozen, wouldn't you?
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sthorne Donating Member (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-07-04 12:21 AM
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2. I'm new
and I'm only sorta a Vermont resident, owning 15 acres in South Vershire.
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DianeK Donating Member (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 01:10 PM
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3. lifelong vermonter here
in fact i am a 6th generation vermonter and very proud to live among people who have common sense and a keen independent spirit. i also could not be prouder of our senators and representive
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democrank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-04 10:53 PM
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4. Vermont here......
and proud of it! I love this place.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-02-04 02:32 PM
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5. Sixth generation Vermonter here
Born in Bennington, now living in California :( And I sure miss the Green Mountains! This place is crazy!
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Mr E McSquare Donating Member (144 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-04 12:26 PM
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6. *chirp* *chirp*
Welcome to Vermont!
Kindly leave your money and go home.
Thanks!
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DaveinMD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-03-04 01:00 AM
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7. I lived in Vermont
one summer. My wife was head of the UVM college democrats during the 92 election. We often go back to visit. Its a great state.
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DrZeeLit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:18 PM
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8. Vermonter, sort of
I live in VT and have for four years. But...that doesn't mean I'll ever be a "Vermonter." I will never be considered a Vermonter. Oh well. I LOVE it anyway. And I am a 4th generation native California girl. I just got transplanted by marriage. Yep, married a skier who built a home here 30 years ago (and he's not considered a Vermonter, either).

Live in Mendon. Am a college professor at Castleton State. Do NOT miss the traffic in CA.

Cheers!
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Skywalker Donating Member (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:34 AM
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9. 15 Years Here
Recovering flatlander and Masshole and happy to be in Vermont.

Go:
Kerry/Edwards
Claqvelle/Rivers
Leahy
Sanders (Yay Bernie!)

And of course, "Thank you Jim!" (A true HERO!)


Mark
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ExclamationPoint Donating Member (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 02:39 PM
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10. I just suspecte Vermonters weren't the computer type.
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MoonWomyn Donating Member (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 07:15 AM
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11. we like computers
sometimes, when there's nothing else to do :)

:hi:
Greetings from the Granola Belt
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7th Generation VTer Donating Member (29 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 08:40 AM
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12. New here
I just signed up...

I'm a Vermonter, back more than 7 generations actually, since I have a smidge of Abnaki blood (and a drop or two of Iroquois). Raised by Roosevelt Democrats, strong believer in social justice. I'm so proud of our Congressional delegation! We have to be sure that Jeezum Jim Jeffords is reelected in '06, as he faces some seriously vindictive Goppers mad at him for leaving the Republican party. They'll pull out all the dirty tricks to bring him down and we have to send them packing like we did Jack McMuffin.
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 02:23 AM
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18. Nobody will dump Jeffords . . .
Nobody will dump Jeffords . . . nobody. After all, Jeffords goes waaaaaaaaaaay the hell back. His family were old-time progressive Lincoln Republicans as were many in Vermont at that time.

As Jeffords so adroitly stated when he became an "independent" . . . it wasn't that he left the party, it was that the party had left him and all the moderate-to-progressives long ago! So no matter what dirty tricks Karl Rove and his boys or any other rightwingers try to play, Jeffords will be returned to D.C. in '06.

I voted for Jeffords when I lived in Vermont. And I would again if I lived there in '06.

.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 12:58 PM
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19. Hi 7th Generation VTer!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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ExclamationPoint Donating Member (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-04 11:12 AM
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13. HI
:hi:
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divineorder Donating Member (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 08:20 AM
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14. Because of Dean
I looked up Vemont, and found that it seems to be one of the most beautiful and calm states in the Union, where living is human-scale in everyway.

Do you know that August highs in Vermont only gets up to the eighties? I'm surpised that more people haven't gone up there in summer to escape the heat of the big cities.

Vermont has been mostly Republican until very recently. The first Democratic governor was elected in 1962, and got three terms. Then in the 1980's Vermont elected its first woman Governor (a Democrat) and then after Snelling-Howard Dean.
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wtbymark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 12:37 PM
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15. Another one from the woodwork
Just sounding off as a fellow vermonter (also a transplanted flatlander)
i moved here 5 years ago to escape CNY and New York politics. Come watch me play Dead in a bar near you : )
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Pendrench Donating Member (729 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 02:44 PM
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16. My mom is from Winooski
My mother grew up in Winooski and we used to visit that side of the family every summer - in fact, most of my relatives still live there.

Last summer I had the chance to take my wife and kids to visit all of my aunts, uncles, and cousins, and they loved it!

I have many fond memories of Winooski, Burlington, Lake Champlain, and Rutland (where a great aunt and uncle lived) and I hope to visit again some day soon.
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RollergirlVT Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-05 11:34 PM
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17. happy in VT :-)
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-05 04:07 AM
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20. It's too cold for crickets, or any other living thing
Those of us in the North Country are probably cowering under comforters or quilts. It's just been so cold!:-(
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 10:04 AM
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21. My first visit
Greetings from a flatlander.

Awful quiet here, I just added a post, it was the first activity in 6 days.

Everyone must be hibernating.
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 10:22 PM
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22. Welcome to DU, paineinthearse!
You sure have moved at lightning speed, LOL! Glad to have you with us!:toast:

Can you blame us for hibernating?! It's cold as hell and we're buried under snow, here in the North Country!
:scared:
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