Author Archives: JaneTaylor

Soon I’ll Be on Technorati!

Getting into this blogosphere and am supposed to add this claim code to my blog – so, here it is! Y2JH9ZHGTH28

Luxury Lodging in Vermont: Twin Farms in Winter

An exerpt from the Ski Lodges: The Innkeepers of the Tradition of the New York Times Travel Section, Sunday, February 1, 2009 By Amy Virshup To get to the top of the mountain at Twin Farms Resort, you can take …Read More…

Buying an Inn or Bed and Breakfast in Vermont: First Things First

Perhaps for a long time you have have wondered what it would be like to own an inn or bed and breakfast in Vermont. You have decided it is time to cash out of the city and retire from your hectic urban …Read More…

Food Critic and Cookbook Author Mark Bittman Gives Waterbury Restaurant Rave Reviews

One of our favorite restaurants was given high marks in last Sunday’s New York Times Travel Section. Mark Bittman, food critic and author of the best-selling How To Cook Everything, says of Hen of the Wood in Waterbury, VT, that …Read More…

For Those Who Are Waiting for the Market “Bottom”…

It’s A Buyer’s Market, So Buy!!!

Gary Keller, author of “Shift – How Top Real Estate Agents Tackle Tough Times” has just written an article for the January issue of Realtor Magazine. Here is an excerpt: A buyers’ market should be just that – a buyers’ …Read More…

Last Minute Holiday Shopping? Almost Home and the Rocky Dale Christmas Shanty Have It All in One Place: Bristol, VT

There are many who will tell you that the only place to go for coffee and scones every morning in Bristol, Vermont, is the Almost Home Market. They will also tell you that the only place to get that great last-minute gift …Read More…

Kiplinger.com Calls Burlington, Vermont a Safe Haven for Real Estate

Louis Jones of Kiplinger.com names Burlington, Vermont as one of six safe real estate havens in the U.S. Perhaps that is because Vermont is one of the last sane places in America on a number of fronts. Unemployment and foreclosure rates remain …Read More…

Village of Shoreham, Vermont Bares All for Library

The residents and business owners of the bucolic village of Shoreham, Vermont have taken their clothes off to fundraise for their local library.  The story of how the Friends of the Platt Library gathered the (mostly) willing citizenry in this cozy Addison …Read More…

Julia Alvarez of Middlebury College Writes about Small Town Country Life

You can read here what the well-known author Julia Alverez, of Weybridge, Vermont has to say about small- town life in Vermont.