Starksboro Vermont

"Starksboro Vermont" 14x20 Oil on panel.

Starksboro is a town in Vermont chartered shortly after the Declaration of Independence was signed. It is exactly what you'd expect of such a town: a white steeple church, several greek-revival style homes right on the road, neighboring farms, and a stream winding down out of the Greens Mountains with a cascade that once had a mill. Just downstream from the old mill site is where I painted this piece. It was an overcast day with a beautifully cool light. I always feel a strong sense of time and history in these places. I like to imagine the surveyors walking this very same cascade looking for a good spot to put the mill; and while they had a very practical concern at hand they no doubt appreciated the beauty of it in itself. Now I stand here all these years later, the mill long gone but the rocky cascade still going, the beauty of it still enduring for anyone who happens by.

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