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Damien and I have on the whole been loving our time in Vermont.  Great state, great people, breath-taking scenery.  A general and refreshing absence of strip malls, traffic, chain restaurants and grey cityscapes.  A long, cold winter…but all the winter sports and activities you can think of to help it fly by.  In fact, our biggest […]

I was recently put on task to translate part of a French book published in 1818, a first-hand account by a titled Frenchman of a visit to the mid-Atlantic United States (in case you are interested in looking at the book itself, in its original French by Montlezun, it can be found here: http://books.google.com/books?id=h6U2iBgVVMgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPP13,M1).  Aside from the […]