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The fifties and early sixties can be best summed up as the end of the milk can, the demise of the short line railroads (the Montpelier and Wells River in 55′, the Rutland Railroad in 62′)\u00a0and the twilight of the\u00a0nearly hundred year run of the\u00a0“Grand old Party”.\u00a0 The state that never voted for Roosevelt and told him where he could stick his “Green Mountain Parkway” was in a process of transition.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

What happened was the perfect storm for the coming\u00a0“flatlander” invasion\u00a0of the sixties.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Dairy farmers no longer took milk cans to the railroad station. The tracks were torn up or abandoned.\u00a0 Now refrigerated tank trucks came to the farm to pick up the milk. But , the farmer was now required to have a refrigerated bulk tank of his own. Many farms on the\u00a0edge couldn’t afford it. A lot of their kids didn’t want to carry on. Consequently a lot of land went up for sale.\u00a0 “Vermont, the beckoning country” became the motto for real estate agents in the early sixties.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

With the arrival\u00a0of the Interstate highways Vermont was within 4 hours drive of all the major metropolitan cities.\u00a0 Many moved here and more then a few\u00a0discovered that unlike where they were from, here they could be the big fish in a little pond.They became teachers, journalist, and politicians (hey Bernie), and over the course of four decades turned the State of Vermont from red to purple to the deep blue it is today.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fifties and early sixties can be best summed up as the end of the milk can, the demise of the short line railroads (the Montpelier and Wells River in 55′, the Rutland Railroad in 62′)\u00a0and the twilight of the\u00a0nearly hundred year run of the\u00a0“Grand old Party”.\u00a0 The state that never voted for Roosevelt and …<\/p>\n

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