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A study of tourism and the social, cultural, and political forces that have shaped Vermont’s landscape and popular image over the past century.

With its small native population, proximity to major metropolitan areas, and bucolic rural beauty, Vermont was fated to be a tourist mecca, forever associated in the popular imagination with maple syrup, fall colors, and ski bunnies. Tourism, for good and ill, has always been the decisive factor in the concep... read more>>>