by Reg | Apr 14, 2016 | Audio, BHS Podcasts, History, Podcast, recordings, RiverFest 2022
In the spring of 1909, the completion of a new hydro-electric dam in Vernon created at 28 mile long lake, from Vermont’s southern boarder with Massachusetts to Bellows Falls, as waters began to back up and subsume much of the river-adjacent countryside....
by Reg | Dec 23, 2014 | Audio, BHS Podcasts, History, Podcast, RiverFest 2022
A two man disaster squad, with ax and rope, has cut through cakes of ice backed up by the West River. Note the off-center hitch enabling horses to follow track rather than navigate heavier snow in center ridge of road.
