A Place For Guests of Noble Stature
I love Vermont because...
From a speech by President Calvin Coolidge, delivered in Bennington on September 21, 1928:
"I could not look upon the peaks of Ascutney, Killington, Mansfield and Equinox without being moved in a way that no other scene could move me.
It was here that I first saw the light of day; here I received my bride; here my dead lie pillowed on the loving breast of our everlasting hills. I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all, because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont."
Distinguished Guests Include...
- Ulysses S. Grant
- American General and 18th President of the United States
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- American poet, essayist and physician
- Henry David Thoreau
- American naturalist and author
- Phillips Brooks
- American Episcopal Bishop, wrote hymn "O little town of Bethlehem"
- John Barrett
- American diplomat; Minister to Siam and to Argentina, Panama and Columbia; Director General of the Pan American Union
- Rudyard Kipling
- English poet, novelist and short-story writer
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Author, naturalist, statesman, soldier and 26th President of The United States
- Samuel B. Pettengill
- American author - "The Yankee Pioneers", and former U.S. Congressman from Indiana
- Woodrow Wilson
- American author, professor, President of Princeton University, Governor of New Jersey and the 28th President of the United States
- Albert Payson Terhune
- American author and journalist
- Daniel Webster
- American orator and statesman - House of Representatives, U.S. Senate and Secretary of State
- Charles Edison
- Secretary of the Navy, Governor of New Jersey, son of Thomas Edison
- Frank L. Boyden
- "The Headmaster", Deerfield Academy
- Dean Mathey
- Philanthropist and financier, Founder and chief benefactor of the Windham Foundation
- Robert Goheen
- Former President of Princeton University
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- American author - "The Scarlet Letter", "The House of Seven Gables"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- American poet, essayist and lecturer
- Margaret Deland
- American novelist - "John Ward, Preacher", "Old Chester Tales"
- George Grafton Wilson
- Professor International Law - Harvard and Brown
