In an office adorned with maps of a Vermont long past, Paul Gillies researches the lost roads that once crisscrossed the Green Mountain State. A law recently passed requires towns to find and document the roads or lose the right to them.
(Caleb Kenna for The Boston Globe)
Vermonters search for roads of yore
In an office adorned with maps of a Vermont long past, Paul Gillies researches the lost roads that once crisscrossed the Green Mountain State. A law recently passed requires towns to find and document the roads or lose the right to them.
(Caleb Kenna for The Boston Globe)
MIDDLESEX, Vt. - Paul Gillies, a Montpelier attorney, traveled a slow and circuitous route on an unpaved mountain track until he reached a hairpin bend in the route. Nearby, where fresh snow resembled a dazzling white comforter, a gap between the pine trees appeared to expose remnants of an old, unused road. (Full article: 838 words)
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