Vermont Travel

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To find solace from the hectic life of cities and suburbs, Americans often head to places where, it is said, “time seems to have stopped,” places where vestiges of a slower era still exist. In Vermont, time not only stopped, it went backward. Hills and valleys that were once stripped bare of trees for agriculture turned green again as forests reclaimed abandoned fields and pastures. Moose, salmon, and the peregrine falcon, which were chased from the region decades ago, have started to come back, though the lordly mountain lion may never be seen here again.