"Bernie Sanders was just a skinny, gap-toothed kid from Brooklyn in the autumn of 1953, when Vermont opened an information bureau at 1268 Avenue of the Americas, next door to Radio City Music Hall. The Green Mountains beckoned! Under a shop sign that read " VERMONT," a wide storefront window exhibited seasonal dioramas that trapped pedestrians like chipmunks in a sap bucket. Inside, you could find out about snow conditions and fishing holes, inspect a woodstove,"
"A year after the center opened, Alfred Hitchcock went to Craftsbury, Vermont, to shoot "The Trouble with Harry." People in that little town, population seven hundred and nine, brought the crew blueberry muffins and found a 1913 Buick for the production to use, on the condition that no one drive it more than forty miles an hour, which is about as fast as anyone could drive on those roads, anyway."
"The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, flat on his back on a hill outside town, on a patch of grass carpeted with red-edged golden oak leaves, near a fallen log on a spot with a sweeping view of mountains blue and green and purple and glorious. In an interview with Vermont Life, Hitchcock said, "If one has to die, can you think of a more beautiful place to do so than in Vermont in autumn?""
Bernie Sanders was a skinny, gap-toothed Brooklyn boy in 1953 who visited Vermont when the state opened an information bureau at 1268 Avenue of the Americas near Radio City Music Hall. The bureau showcased seasonal dioramas, offered travel advice, and sold maple syrup. Alfred Hitchcock filmed The Trouble with Harry in Craftsbury, where townspeople supplied blueberry muffins and a 1913 Buick under a slow-speed condition. The film captured Vermont’s autumnal beauty: oak leaves, fallen logs, and sweeping mountain views. Sanders’s early exposure to Vermont’s landscapes and small-town hospitality provided formative contrasts to his Brooklyn upbringing.
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