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5.31.25 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Realized Shorn Story Hour as a
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  reminder raised reading service intended for people who are blind
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  to have other disabilities that make it difficult to read
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  print material. Today we will be reading from various books
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  on US states. Your reader today is Diane. We will
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  continue with the book from Last Time Kentucky. It was
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  published by bill Weather Media and has a copy right
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  year of twenty twenty two and the author is Alicia Clapis.
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  From golfing to hiking, Kentucky offers locals and visitors many
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  fun activities. People kayak, locating, and bike in Kentucky's forty
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  five state parks. College basketball is also hugely popular. Local
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  cheer on the Kentucky Wildcats. Kentucky is famous for bluegrass music.
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  Is a mixed blues, folk, jazz, and gospel music. It
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  has roots and traditional music from both the British Isles
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  and parts of Africa. Bluegrass performers often play the banjo, fiddle,
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  and guitar. Kentucky's rich performing arts scene also includes theater
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  and dance. Kentuckians attend many fun festivals each year. Louisville
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  hosts the Kentucky Derby Festival each spring. Events include live music,
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  the Pegasus Prey, a marathon, a fantastic fireworks display. Each summer,
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  visitors to the Kentucky State Fair can hear musical performances
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  and go on rides. The World's Championship Ports Show is
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  another state Fair tradition. In September, Hopkinsville hosts the Trail
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  of Tears. Inter tribal pow wow, dance competitions and flute
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  demonstrations celebrate Native American cultures. Kentuckians host festivals and celebrate
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  her traditions all year long. Kentucky has several barbecue festivals
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  throughout the year. Other food events include the Monroe County
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  Watermelon Festival and the Casey County Apple Festival. Kentucky Timeline
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  sixteen hundreds, Several Spanish and French explorers arrived in what
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  is now Kentucky. Seventeen seventies, Kentucky first permanent European settlements
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  are founded. Seventeen ninety two, Kentucky becomes the fifteenth state
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  in the US. Eighteen thirty, the Indian Removal Act is passed,
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  forcing many Native Americans to leave Kentucky and head west
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  along the Trail of Tears. Eighteen sixty one, eighteen sixty five,
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  the Silvil War divides Kentucky, with about ten thousand Kentucky
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  soldiers fighting for the Union and as many as forty
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  thousand fighting for the Confederacy. Eighteen seventy five, the first
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  Kentucky Derby Race takes place. Nineteen thirty six, the US
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  Treasury's Goldbald is established at Fort Knox nineteen forty one.
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  Mammoth Cave National Park is established. Nineteen eighty three. Martha
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  Lane Collins becomes Kentucky's first woman to be elected governor.
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  Twenty nineteen, Kentucky's governor declares the state of emergency after
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  heavy rains causing flooding. Kentucky facts. The nickname is the
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  Bluegrass State. The model is united, we stand, Divided, we fall.
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  Date of statehood June first, seventeen ninety two. The capital
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  city is Frankfurt. Other major cities Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green.
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  Area forty four hundred eighth square miles. Kentucky's the thirty
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  seventh largest state. The background of the Kentucky state flag
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  is navy blue. In the central is the state seal.
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  It features a statesmen and a pioneer. Their interaction is
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  meant to show the state model of United we stand, divided,
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  we fall. Kentucky's model is also within the seal. Above
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  the seal are the words Commonwealth of Kentucky. Beneath the
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  seal are go and rod flowers. The main exports in
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  Kentucky or cars, trucks, aircraft parts, chemicals, classics, machinery. Natural
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  resources are coal, fertile soil, timber, oil, natural gas. State
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  symbols are the state bird, the northern cardinal, the state
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  animal gray squirrel, state flower, going rod, and state tree
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  tulip poplar. Our next book is titled New Hampshire and
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  it was published by bell Weather Media is a copyright
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  ear of twenty twenty two and the author of the
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  book is Colleen Sexton. A family arrives at fran Sonoa
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  Notch State Park on a crispfall day. They begin their
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  adventure with a hike at the Flume Gorge trail, water
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  spills between rock walls that rises high as ninety feet. Later,
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  the family heads to Echo Lake. They watch hawk's soar
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  overhead as they paddle kayaks across the clear water. The
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  family ends their day with a train ride to the
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  top of Canyon Mountain. Fall colors blaze red, orange and
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  yellow in the forest covered valleys in nearby mountains. Welcome
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  to New Hampshire. New Hampshire's part of New England and
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  the northeastern United States. Main borders New Hampshire to the east.
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  The Atlantic Ocean washes the southeastern eastern corner of the state.
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  Massachusetts is the New hampshire southern neighbor. The Connecticut River
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  forms its western boundary, with Vermont delies across New Hampshire's
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  short northern border. This triangle shaped state covers nine three
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  hundred and forty nine square miles. The capital city of
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  Concord sits in south central New Hampshire. Manchester, the largest city,
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  lies farther south. Other large cities include Dairy and Nausha.
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  People first arrived in New Hampshire about twelve thousand years ago.
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  Over time, Native American groups formed. The largest were the Abenaki.
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  They were hunters and farmers. Many lived in wigwam villages
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  along rivers and lakes. European explorers reached New Hampshire in
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  the early nine In the early sixteen hundreds, the English
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  settled around the Pescatauqua River. In the sixteen twenties, they
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  traded timber, fish and firs. New Hampshire fought for their
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  independence in the Revolutionary War. New Hampshire became the ninth
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  state in seventeen eighty eight. New Hampshire has no federally
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  recognized tribes in the state today, However, some Native Americans
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  still live throughout the state. The White Mountain Stain in
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  northern New Hampshire, New England's highest point, Mount Washington, lies
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  within them, forest cover, low mountains, and rolling hills. To
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  the south, the Merrimac River begins in central New Hampshire.
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  It flows south through hilly Farmland Islands Dot Lake Whennipolsky
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  stretches of rocky and sandy shore line the Atlantic Ocean.
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  New Hampshire experiences around ten days of dangerously hot temperatures
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  each year. Climate change may push the number of days
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  to more than forty by twenty fifty. The extended heat
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  will put the health of more people at risk. New
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  Hampshire is mountain the summer and cold in the winter
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  are cooler than the river valleys. Winter brings heavy snow.
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  Wild winds blow on Mount Washington. Some of the world's
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  highest wind speeds have been recorded there. New Hampshire's forests.
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  White tailed deer dashed between trees. Purple finches seen from branches.
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  Bobcats hunt squirrels and raccoons. Black bears search for berries
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  and acorns. Moose chomp on birch and maple twigs. Swallow
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  Tail butterflies sit nectar from wildflowers. Fevers bring down trees
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  to dam rivers and streams. They create watery habitats for muskrats,
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  turtles and herrons. Ospreys grab trout, bass and salmon from
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  New Hampshire's waters. Little brown bats swoop over wetlands to
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  catch insects. Piping plovers set nests on sandy beaches, while
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  wells and dolphins swim offshore. About nine in ten New
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  Hampshire bites have European ancestors. Early setters came from England,
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  Scotland and Ireland. Later, the state's industry drew other Europeans,
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  as well as French Canadians. Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans
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  make up the next largest groups. Smaller populations of Native
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  American and Black or African American people also live in
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  New Hampshire. Newcomers have arrived from India, Canada, China, the
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  Dominican Republic. In Nepal. More than one point three million
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  people call New Hampshire home. Around three out of five
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  living urban areas. The largest city lie in the Merrimac Valley.
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  The Manchester, Nausia metropolitan area has the largest population. Rural
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  New hampshireites live on farms and in small villages. A
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  famous New Hampshire Wite is Allen B. Shepherd Junior. He
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  was born November eight teenth, nineteen twenty three, and he
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  died July twenty first, nineteen ninety eight. His hometown was Jerry,
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  New Hampshire. He was famous for becoming the first American
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  astronaut to travel into space in nineteen sixty one and
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  the fifth person to walk on the Moon in nineteen
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  seventy one. The Abenaki once fished where Manchester stands on
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  the Merrimac River. English and Scottish settlers made the site
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  their home in the seventeen twenties. One of the country's
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  first text Tom Mills, was built in Manchester in eighteen
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  o five. The city's population group today Manchester is New
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  Hampshire's largest city. Manchester's residence enjoy strolling the Heritage Trail
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  on the Merrimac River. Lake Massabisic is great for boating.
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  In winter, snow tubers hit the slopes of the McIntyre
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  Ski Area. The Sea Science Center offers visitors hands on
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  fun as they explore it. Exhibits crowds fill the Palace
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  Theater for stage performances. New Hampshire's natural resources support many jobs.
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  In the forest workers harvest trees for lumber and paper.
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  Miners dig up sand, gravel and granite throughout the state.
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  Fishing crews hauling lobsters, cod and hair and off the coast.
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  Top farm products include hay apples, sweetcorn, and maple sugar.
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  Farmers also grow nursery plants and greenhouses. Factory workers make electronics,
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  machine parts and medical equipment. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard builds
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  and maintains submarines. Most New Hampshires have service shops. They
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  work in healthcare, education and tourism. Things invented in New Hampshire.
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  The Old Farmers Almanac was invented in seventeen ninety two
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  by Robert B. Thomas. The American alarm clock was invented
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  in seventeen eighty seven by Levi Hutchins. The segway was
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  invented in two thousand and one by Dean Kamen, New
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  Hampshire Joy's classic New England dishes, Lobster rows and clamshowder
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  are local favors. Clam Bags on the beach are a
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  summer tradition. Clams, lobsters, potatoes and corn are steamed in
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  a pit. Hooks fry at bass pulled from the state's lakes.
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  Hunters provide deer moose another game for stews and sausages.
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  Apple cider is the state drink. It features in apple
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  cider donuts. Sap collected from maple trees and spring is
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  made into maple syrup. The syrup flavors maple walnut ice cream.
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  This sweet tree is served at ice cream shops throughout
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  the state. New hampshiretes make the most of the outdoors.
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  In warm weather, the state parks filled with hikers and campers.
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  Vickers pedal along mountain trails and country roads. Rushing rivers
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  draw whitewater rafters and kayakers. In winter, skiers and snowboarders
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  wush down snow covered slopes. Performances at the Barnes Stormers
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  Theater and Tamworth are a summer tradition. The Children's museum.
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  Visitors explore caves and discovered dinosaurs. Sport fans cheer for
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  the Fishercats baseball team. NASCAR racing thrills crowds at the
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  New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Luden. New hampshiretes celebrate traditions
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  throughout the year. Many brave the Code every February to
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  celebrate the Newport Winter Carnival. They enjoy a parade, games
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  and midnight ice skating. In July and August, Portsmith hosts
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  the Prescott Park Arcs Festival. A theater group performs a
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  musical and many musicians take the stage. Colebrooks North Country
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  Moose Festival is in August. It features a moose calling contest,
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  moose chili and a barn dance costume. Crowds enjoy the
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  King Pumpkin Festival in October. They stroll among thousands of
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  blowing jack Landers. New Hampshire's festivals bring communities together. New
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  Hampshire timeline sixteen oh three. English explorer Martin Pring is
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  likely the first European to explore New Hampshire. In seventeen
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  forty one. New Hampshire becomes an English colony in seventeen
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  eighty eight, New Hampshire becomes the ninth US state. In
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  eighteen o eight, Concord becomes New Hampshire state capital. In
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  eighteen fifty three, New Hampshire native Franklin Pierce becomes the
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  fourteenth US President. In nineteen eighteen, the White Mountain National
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  Forests established in New Hampshire in Maine. In twenty twelve,
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  New Hampshire is the first state where all officials elected
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  to the un US Congress are women. In twenty eighteen,
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  Chris Papias is elected as the first openly gay person
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  to represent New Hampshire in Congress. In twenty eighteen, a
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  powerful storm knocks out power for more than sixty three
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  thousand people. In twenty nineteen, Governor Chriss New bands oil
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  drilling off of New Hampshire's coast. New Hampshire Facts It
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  is nicknamed the Granite State model. Live Free or Die
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  to date of statehood June twenty first, seventeen eighty eight.
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  Capital city Concord. Other major cities Manchester, Noshu and Dry
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  area nine thousand, three hundred and forty nine square miles.
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  New Hampshire state flag was adopted in nineteen oh nine.
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  It features the state seal on a blue background. The
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  seal includes the revolution Sheary warship Raleigh being built in Portsmouth,
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  golden leaves, and nine golden star circled state seal. The
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  stars show that New Hampshire was the ninth state. Main
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  exports aircraft parts, machine parts, medicines, cell phones, natural resources, forests, granite, sand, gravel.
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  State symbols the state bird of purple finch, state animal,
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  white tailed deer, state flower purple lilac, and state tree
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  of white birch. Our next book is Vermont and it
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  was published by Bell Weather Media. It has a copyright
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  year of twenty twenty two. The author is Colleen Sexton.
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  It is a more fault Day in Vermont. Higher stand
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  on a bridge high above the Quishy Gorge. They hear
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  the out of Quishy River run as it flows far below.
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  They take in the bright colors of the surrounding forest
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  covered hills. The hikers hitch the bottom of the gorge.
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  They follow a wide dirt trail under the shade of
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  tall trees. Canada geese honk overhead. The trail becomes steeper,
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  the sound of rushing water grows louder. The hikers reach
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  the river's edge. They wade in and splash in the
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  cool water. Welcome to Vermont. Vermont lies in New England.
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  This region covers the northeastern United States. Canada is Vermont's
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  neighbor to the north. The Connecticut River forms Vermont's eastern
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  border with New Hampshire, Massachusetts lies to the south. Vermont
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  shares its western boundary with New York. Lake Champlain stretches
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  for about one hundred and twenty miles along the border.
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  Vermont is a small, narrow state that covers nine thousand,
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  six hundred and sixteen square miles. The capital city of
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  Montlare sits near the middle of the state. The largest
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  city lies in the northwestern Vermont. They include Burlington, Essex,
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  South Burlington, and Colchester. Vermont is a green state name,
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  come from French words vert Inmont. It means green mountain.
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  Vermont's nickname is the Green Mountain State. People arrived in
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  Vermont about twelve thousand years ago. Native American tribes formed
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  over time. The Abenaki, maschekn and Pennacook lived in Wigwam villages.
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  Explorers reached Lake Champlain in sixteen o nine. They claimed
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  the region for France. The French established Fort Saint Anne.
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  In sixteen sixty six, the fort protected fur trading routes
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  in the northeast. In seventeen twenty, the English built Fort
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  Dummer in the southeast. England battled with France and gained
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  all of Vermont by seventeen sixty three. In seventeen seventy seven,
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  Vermont declared its independence and formed its own government. Vermont
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  fought alongside the Thirteen Colonies in the Revolutionary War. After
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  the war, it became the fourteenth state. There are no
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  federally recognized tribes in Vermont, though some Native Americans live
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  in the state. Vermont is a lane of mountains and valleys.
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  Granite peaks rise in Vermont's northeastern corner lowlands, lying much
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  of the Connecticut River. They slope up in the west
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  towards the Green Mountains that run through the middle of
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  the state. In the northwest, the Champlain Valleys lowlands border
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  Lake Champlain Islands stopped the lake. Fast flowing streams cut
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  through the tick Tonic Range in Vermont's southwest. Vermont's short
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  summers are mild and rainy. Winters are long and cold.
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  Temperatures often dip below freezing more than one hundred and
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  twenty inches of snow piles up the mountains each winter.
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  Vermont's forest are full of wildlife. Black bears scrambled up
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  trees to grab fruits and nuts. Moose seek the forest
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  cool shade in hot weather. Eastern bobcats stalk squirrels, rabbits
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  and deer. Gray foxes leave their dens at night to
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  hunt mice and small birds. Woodshokes burrow and fields of
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  forest edges in metals. Hermit thrushes pick the ground for insects.
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  Red tailed hawks soar overhead. Honey bees sip nectar from buttercups, violets,
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  and gold rod Beavers built dams and rivers and streams
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  where trout and salmon swim. Turtles, frogs, and salamanders live
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  in Vermont's wetlands. Around six hundred and forty three thousand
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  people live in Vermont, is one of the lowest populations
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  in the country. More than three out of five Vermontors
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  live in rural areas, their farms and small towns valleys
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  throughout the state. More than nine out of ten Vermontras
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  have European ancestors. Many are descendants of English, Irish and
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  French Canadian immigrants. Small numbers of Black or African Americans,
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  Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans live in the state.
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  Newcomers have arrived from Canada, Nepal, Jamaica, and the Philippines.
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  Famous vermontras Ben Cohen was born March eighteenth, nineteen fifty
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  one and Jerry Greenfield was born March fourteenth, nineteen fifty one.
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  Their hometown is Burlington, Vermont. They are famous for creating
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  Man and Jerry's ice cream Company, which is known for
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  chunky Monkey, cherry Garcia and other wacky flavors, as well
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  for doing charitable work around the world. Burlington was founded
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  in seventeen sixty three through settlers to work in his
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  small mill and shipbuilding businesses. The city had become an
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  important lumber park port by the mid eighteen hundreds. Today,
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  Burlington is Vermont's largest city and center of industry. Burlington
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  sits on a hill overlooking Lake Champlain. Residents enjoy sunset
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  views from water front park. They relaxed in nearby beaches
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  Viker's Pedal, The popular Burlington Greenway along the lake shoreline.
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  Church Street Marketplace features shops and restaurants. In summer, residents
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  go there to dine outdoors and listen to street musicians.
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  The South End neighborhoods many galleries make it a center
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  for the arts. Lodging through many of Vermont's early sellers. Today,
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  forests cover much of a state, and logging remains an
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  important industry. About one in three Vermont factories process harvested
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  wood into products such as paper, furniture, and hockey sticks.
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  Other factories produce computer and machine parts. Miners cut slabs
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  of granite and marble in Vermont's quarries. Many of Vermont's
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  farmers raised dairy cows. The milk they produce is turned
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  into cheese and ice cream. Apples and corn are grown
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  in Champlain Valley. Tourism is a big business. Resorts and
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  hotels employee workers who serve visitors. Other Vermontors have service
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  jobs in schools, banks, and hospitals. Things invented in Vermont.
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  Internal combustion engine was invented in eighteen twenty six by
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  Samuel Morey. Platform scale was invented in eighteen thirty by
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  Thaddeus Fairbanks. Spoon fishing lure was invented in eighteen thirty
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  four by Julio Mule, and the modern snowboard was invented
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  in nineteen seventy seven by Jake Burton Carpenter. Vermontras enjoy
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  harty local food. Traditional wild game suppers feature grilled innison,
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  black bear stew, and raccoon pie. Corn chowder and lamb
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  stew are popular on cold winter days. Cooks add butter
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  and lemon to fiddleheads. Cheddar cheese is a favorite among
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  a variety of local cheeses, apples from local orchards, filled
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  apple pies, and flavor cider donuts. Maple syrup features in
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  classic dishes like maple baked beans and maple cream pie.
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  Maple creams are popular ice cream treat. Sugar on snow
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  is a winter Tragihan Vermontras drizzled boiled maple syrup on
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  fresh snow. They eat the cooled and hardened syrup. When
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  winter for Mantras head outdoors. They go snowmobiling, snow shoeing,
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  and ice skating. Skiers and snowboarders it to the snowy slopes.
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  Residents celebrate spring's arrival at sugar houses. They turn sap
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  into maple syrup. When the weather is worn, Vermont's legs
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  draw swimmers, boaters, and fishers. Audiences enjoy summer theater performances
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  throughout the state. Baseball fans cheer for the Vermont Lake Monsters.
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  Many communities host craftfares and antique shows. Residents also relax
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  at cafes and shop at local farmers' markets. Fall is
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  a great time for hikers to explore the long trail
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  in the Green Mountains. We will have to finish this
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  book next time, so this concludes our story ire for today.
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