<p class=""> Duxbury, 1879. Eight year-old Alice Meaker and her brother are taken in by an older half-brother in exchange for $50. 11 months later, she disappears in the night.</p>

Duxbury, 1879. Eight year-old Alice Meaker and her brother are taken in by an older half-brother in exchange for $50. 11 months later, she disappears in the night.

<p> Duxbury, 1879. Eight year-old Alice Meaker and her brother are taken in by an older half-brother in exchange for $50. 11 months later, she disappears in the night.</p>

Alice and Emeline (Alice Meaker, Part 1)

Vermont is known for the beauty of its woods and mountains, but the cost of that beauty is often forgotten. For much of our history, Vermonters endured unimaginable hardship and poverty that limited opportunities for growth and preserved, as if unchanged, the landscape of today. Their suffering is always with us, written on the land, inscribed in cellar-holes and graveyards and orchards gone to wild. Welcome to These Dark Mountains.&nbsp;

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Vermont is known for the beauty of its woods and mountains, but the cost of that beauty is often forgotten. For much of our history, Vermonters endured unimaginable hardship and poverty that limited opportunities for growth and preserved, as if unchanged, the landscape of today. Their suffering is always with us, written on the land, inscribed in cellar-holes and graveyards and orchards gone to wild. Welcome to These Dark Mountains. 

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