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Goodsell Ridge Fossil Preserve in Isle La...

January 15, 2022

Across 85 acres, visitors to this prehistoric wonderland are treated to 480 million years of history. The park is home to the Chazy Fossil Reef and its residents are immortalized in stone. Open year-round and free to all, the Goodsell Ridge Fossil Preserve guides intrepid explorers along various trails and paths that detail the history of the Chazy Fossil Reef. The reef itself underlines most of the bedrock throughout this region of Vermont. The fossilized remains of creatures such as gastropods...

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont

January 15, 2022

In the town of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, a richly-appointed gallery has a window to the Yosemite Valley—specifically, a spot near the mid-point of Yosemite Falls with a panoramic view of the surrounding landscape. Though you might feel like you could step straight through to the Sierra Nevadas, the landscape is actually a massive painting created by the German-American artist Albert Bierstadt. “The Domes of Yosemite” is the heart of a collection full of wondrous pieces at the St. Johnsbury...

'Snowflake' Bentley Exhibit in Jericho, Vermont

January 15, 2022

For Wilson Bentley’s 15th birthday, he received a gift that would change his perspective on the world: a microscope. Bentley grew up on his family farm in Jericho, Vermont, where snowfall can reach dozens of feet throughout the year. This is where Bentley fell in love with the art and science behind snowflakes. A self-taught meteorologist, Bentley later became the first person to create a successful picture of a snowflake in 1885, better known as a photomicrograph. He was...

Depot 62 in Manchester, Vermont

January 15, 2022

It’s pretty standard to find a dining room setup in a furniture store, but it’s not every day that you can actually sit down and have a meal there. And it’s even less often that the meal is something other than IKEA’s famous meatballs. But at Depot 62 in Manchester Center, Vermont, you can enjoy Turkish and Mediterranean food while sitting among handwoven rugs and designer couches. Alp Basdogan, the owner of Depot 62, is a designer and importer originally...

Lake Morey Skate Trail in Fairlee, Vermont

January 15, 2022

In the summer, the surface of Lake Morey is dotted with boats carrying fishing equipment or water sports gear. In the fall, the forested hills surrounding the lake turn to brilliant shades of yellow, orange, and red. In the winter, when the leaves have fallen off the trees and the surface of the lake has frozen, Lake Morey becomes the longest outdoor skate trail in the United States. Located in the town of Fairlee in central Vermont, Lake Morey...

How to Resurrect Gold-Rush Era Orchards Ravaged...

January 14, 2022

On the afternoon of July 23, 2018, in the heart of Northern California’s Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, a vehicle towing a dual-axle trailer blew a tire. As the steel rim scraped the highway’s pavement, sparks flew into the dry grass lining the road and ignited what became the Carr Fire, the most destructive fire in National Park Service history. Over the next five weeks, the conflagration would tear through 97 percent of Whiskeytown’s 250,000 acres, incinerating almost everything in...

How Volcanologists Tracked a Violent, Months-Long Eruption

January 14, 2022

For those who celebrate it, Christmas once again carried an air of uncertainty in 2021 due to the pandemic. But the residents of the Spanish island of La Palma had a notably different experience: release, relief, closure. “What I want to say today can be said with just four words,” said Julio Perez, the Canary Islands regional security chief on Christmas Day. “The eruption is over.” After three months of being besieged by an intense volcanic eruption, the best...

The Cornell Apple Vending Machine in Ithaca,...

January 14, 2022

Each year, at Cornell University, fall heralds the return of a most unusual vending machine outside of Mann Library near the Department of Horticulture. In lieu of the usual assortment of snacks, the popular fixture features nine apple varieties, all grown at Cornell Orchards’ two locations. For the modest price of a dollar, students can snag a crisp, juicy Gala, Shizuka, Honeycrisp, McIntosh, or Ginger Gold. Which apples are on display, though, varies month to month. In late August,...

Holt Collier Gravestone in Greenville, Mississippi

January 14, 2022

Holt Collier is best known in American history as the guide to Theodore Roosevelt on a 1902 hunt near Onward, Mississippi that led to the creation of the first teddy bear. Collier was born in 1848 on the Home Hill plantation in Mississippi, where he and his family were enslaved. When he was around 10 years old, Collier was moved to the Plum Ridge plantation, and soon after killed his first bear. He became responsible for providing most of the...

Funaoka Onsen in Kyoto, Japan

January 14, 2022

Funaoka onsen is not technically an onsen, since the water for the baths is heated in the building and not drawn from a geothermal spring. The Japanese government, however, allowed the bathhouse to use the word “onsen” in its name in 1933 due to the presence of the country’s very first electric bath. Electric baths, while not originating in Japan, are used as therapeutic devices in many public bathhouses throughout the country. It serves well to memorize the symbol...

Pierotti’s Clowns Monument in Los Alamos, New...

January 14, 2022

There’s major league baseball. Then you have the minor and independent leagues. Then you have the teams that are so unserious, they play in actual clown makeup. Los Alamos in 1953 was a very serious town. While its existence to the world had been made known by this point, it was still a closed city, surrounded by security fences and guards. Lou and Lee Pierotti ran the local soda fountain and were looking for an entertaining way to pass...

Haedong Yonggungsa in Sirang-ri, South Korea

January 14, 2022

Said to have been established in the year 1396 when Naong Hyegeun—a royal consultant to the Goryeo Dynasty—dreamt that a sea god promised peace and prosperity in exchange for the construction of Haedong Yonggungsa. Built on a precipice with a mountain at its back and the sun and sea at its front, this temple is one of the few seaside temples in Korea. As you enter the temple grounds, you’ll walk past a dozen or so vendors dishing up...

The Challenges of Writing a Continent-Spanning Cookbook

January 13, 2022

Virgilio Martínez knows Peruvian food very, very well. After all, he’s the award-winning chef at Central, a famed Lima restaurant that serves food from the widely varying microclimates across Peru. The result, he says, is cuisine inspired by “different territories, from the sea, to the coast, to the desert, to the Andes, to the vast Amazonia.” His tasting menus feature, among other offerings, artfully plated piranha, dishes containing four different kinds of ancestral corn, and cushuro, a water-dwelling, pearly...

Inside the Years-Long, International Effort to Save...

January 13, 2022

At first glance, there’s nothing remarkable about Mexico’s tequila splitfin fish. Only two and a half inches long, the fish aren’t colorful or poisonous. They aren’t particularly fast. They don’t change colors or exhibit other strange behaviors. In many ways, they are forgettable. So when the fish, endemic to only a single spring-fed river near the Tequila volcano in the Mexican state of Jalisco, went extinct from the wild in 2003, there was no international outcry or even an...

Winter Fire Festivals Around the World That...

January 13, 2022

When temperatures drop, there is one guaranteed way to keep warm outside: fire. Stoking a campfire or backyard pit is one way. Torching an entire viking ship or an effigy of the devil—well, that’s an option, too. Such flaming rituals have been used throughout history and are still an annual fixture in many communities today. Around the world now, there are festivals involving bonfires, torches, candles, and more to mark a special time of year, drive away unwelcome spirits,...

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