And the town of Sherburne has retaken it's original name of Killington! On 2/7/2011 1:12 PM, Darrell A. Martin wrote: > On 2/7/2011 12:41 AM, Alice Gordon wrote: >> I recall hearing about a model town composed of old stores and houses from >> towns all across Vermont. My recollections was that it was call Sherburne >> Village (but that may be incorrect). Anyway, when my father was very old he >> visited this "village" and thought he was seeing something out of the >> "Twilight Zone." He grew up in Barre and went to Dr. Jarvis for eye >> glasses. Apparently the developers of this model village had recreated Dr. >> Jarvis' office right down the tiniest detail. Dad walked in the place and >> knew he had been there, only it should have been in Barre as far as he knew. >> He was spooked! >> >> This was the same Dr. Jarvis who wrote a book about Arthritis. >> >> Alice Gordon > Alice: > > The book "Folk Medicine: A famous doctor's guide to folk medicine > practices of Vermont..."? is the one by Dr. D.C. Jarvis. He thought > apple cider vinegar and water was the drink that would cure whatever > ailed you, especially arthritis. That and unprocessed honey were his > favorite "remedies", taken as part of a long-term habit of eating. I > have a copy, and I refer to it on occasion. It has a good, solid, > nutritionally-based approach to health. > > That's a funny story about the recreated office. I believe it is at the > Shelburne Museum (with an "L"), in Shelburne, just south of Burlington > near Lake Champlain. Sherburne (with an "R") is in south central > Vermont, on the north side of Killington Peak. > > Darrell > > > *************************************** > List Guidelines:http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm > Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site:http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

On 2/7/2011 12:19 PM, Joann H. Nichols wrote: > And the town of Sherburne has retaken it's original name of Killington! Joann: I remember reading about that. My excuse is that my National Survey large wall map of Vermont was printed in Chester in 1976 [grin]. Darrell