Annie-Fanny-Mike and the Dunsmore Proposition
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ST. ALBANS, VERMONT-George Dunsmore's house is set into a hill-side notch overlooking a beautiful bay of Lake Champlain, St. Albans Bay, not far south of the Canadian border. The house, low to the ground and modern-looking, seems to belie Dunsmore's long family association with northern Vermont. One would more likely have expected a white clapboard colonial with wide plank floors, fragile-looking antiques, dark paintings of ancestors, and crumbling mortar in the fireplace. But that is the Vermont of tourists, of aging yuppies from Boston or New York on the prowl for New England verisimilitude, for a historic place so dependably static that in the end its history permits no future. That sort of thing holds little appeal for George Dunsmore, however rooted and rock-ribbed he may be.
Dunsmore is a modern dairyman, from Vermont stock that goes so far back that major road in this county carries his family's name. He manages two dairies—the home farm, where his sister lives, and his wife's family farm, which is the main operation, with a milking herd of 160 Holsteins and Jerseys. His own house is on a separate …
Footnotes
Charles E. Little, 3929 Washington Street, Kensington, Maryland 20895, writes regularly for the JSWC and other magazines on the environment and natural resources.
- Copyright 1989 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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