Trip to Bennington, VT

We Drove to Bennington and visited the oldest Church in Vermont. Buried in the cemetery is Robert Frost, who in 1920, came to live in Shaftsbury, Vt., the next town north of Bennington on Historic Rte 7A. He said, “I mean to plant a new Garden of Eden with a thousand apple trees of some unforbidden variety.”
Frost lived with his family in Shaftsbury during the height of his career as a poet until 1938, when his wife Elinor suddenly died. We able to visit his home also.

We visited the The Bennington Battle Monument, dedicated to the famous Battle of Bennington that took place during the Revolutionary war in 1777. It is a 306' stone obelisk which opened to the public in 1891. It been said that this was a turning point of the war to defeat the British.