The birthplace of George Jones,
Co-founder of the New York Times

"The first Library in Vermont was founded here 1790."

Photo: from the archives of Walt Ruch

"Time works changes, even when a hasty glance
discerns but immobility and virtual stagnation ...

When I entered Poultney, as aspirant to apprenticeship in her
printing-office, I knew no one of her citizens or residents:
when I left that place, after a quiet sojourn of a little
more than four years, I parted with many valued friends, of whom
all who survive still, I trust, remain such.  I have never since
known a community so generously moral, intelligent, industrious,
and friendly - never one where so much good was known,
and so little evil said, of neighbor by neighbor.  There is no
single individual among the many whose acquaintance I have formed there,
of whom I have other than a kindly remembrance; while of nearly all
those with whom I was brought into immediate contact
I cherish fervid and grateful recollections.

...It is still a pleasant place to visit, however: and I live in hopes
of spending a quiet week there ere I die."

by Horace Greeley
Founder, New York Tribune
"Recollections of a Busy Life" by Horace Greeley, 1868, New York
 

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