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That's been my impression of Vermont -- everywhere you turn, farmhouses with caved-in roofs, pastureland gone back to forest, shuttered country churches, forested hillsides where you can just make out what used to be a ski slope by the change in vegetation. On my last visit I had an almost opressive sense that stubborn nature was reclaiming the state. I usually enjoy the woods, but the sense of desolation in rural Vermont can be eerie.