“THE AREA OF south-central Vermont around Stratton Mountain is a rural landscape of white-clapboard farm houses and rolling hills forested with tall pines and silvery birches. Indisputably beautiful countryside, to be sure, but with poor cellphone coverage, stringent restrictions on development and the native Vermonters’ inclination to keep a good thing to themselves, it hasn’t exactly been on the jet-set’s radar.”

- A Discreetly Fashionable Getaway in New England
By Valerie Stivers