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Postcard From Runaway Pond, Glover

Thursday, 08/04/11 12:50pm

Steve Zind

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Jack Sumberg at the site of Runaway Pond

In our ongoing series of town postcards, we visit the Northeast Kingdom community of Glover. Two hundred years ago a group of well-meaning settlers tried to divert water from a lake to run a mill on the Barton River. In a case of unintended consequences, they loosed a massive flash flood on the area, but without it the village of Glover might never have been built. Jack Sumberg tells the story of Runaway Pond.

 


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