@athenalee Hi and thanks for sharing more about you I've enjoyed reading.the post that you have posted mainly in the transplant group where I hang out.
I am a fellow New Englander also as I was born in Mass,.graduated HS in Rhode Island and had most of my kids there but got tired of the snow and moved to Arizona for the last 24 years. But many child hood memories in Vermont. Of special note spent my last trip by bicycle with my Grandfather to a camp ground just north of Bellows falls where we crossed the river but don't remember the town it was in. It was a nice campground on a small swimming lake and had a barn converted into a basketball court. I was 15 at the time so that would be about 1974ish.
One other time I and a few friends went up to the Mt Abraham area and stayed in a cabin my friends parents owned. We climbed Mt Abraham and remember it well since being young and not to smart we didn't use an established trail. It got so steep I slid on some rocks and still have the scars to prove it. Well my buddies got to put there Boy Scout training to good use. But many memories of Vermont what a great place to live.