Ship's Holog: June 2078, fragment #26

We are now passing through the waters of Middlebury, so we must steer carefully to avoid the seine nets that this fishing community uses, and which nearly block our passage up this still narrow section of the lake. With these nets, Middlebury’s fishing people capture a variety of fresh water fish, mainly shad, pike, pickerel, and large mouth bass. True to form, they are ecologically careful to throw back young fish as well as egg-bearing females. As a result, no shad roe is taken or eaten in New Vermont.

Now we are now passing by Bristol-Vergennes, the northernmost quarry community on the Lake, and, then as the Lake widens dramatically just south of Greater Burlington, you can see Shelburne, one of the few communities in New Vermont that has preserved eighteenth and nineteenth century wooden houses. Here’s a familiar view of several such houses, these having been preserved in the sprawling Shelburne Museum, which serves as an educational institution, teaching people throughout the world via holocom about rural life in Vermont in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.