FROST FOLIAGE

Ripton, Vt.---The screen door slaps behind you as you enter the village store, where it is dark and the old pine floor groans and sags because of yet another visitor.

The Ripton Country Store had come up quickly around one of the many sharp bends of mountainous State Route 125 in Vermont, past benign but flaming hardwoods and dark green pines, past hiking trails, ski runs, isolated farmhouses, sugar shacks and hunting cabins. . . CONTINUE

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Photo © Ellie Hilferty 2000

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