Fun Vermont Facts!

Just finished my LGBT paper on Gay Comix of the early 1980s and before that had written a paper using Dorothy Smith and Foucault's theoretical methodologies to analyze Alloy Entertainment and Gossip Girl. Anyway, now I'm tired and want to go home! So, to get myself, and all of you, excited for Vermont, I've gone onto the Secretary of State website and found the Kids Page which has some fun Vermont facts...

Here we go! (I've ruled out the really boring ones)

Vermont is the largest producer of maple syrup in the U.S., producing over 500,000 gallons a year.
Duh. No other syrup is even close to being real.

Dr. H. Nelson Jackson was the first to drive an automobile across the U.S. in 1903. He was from Burlington.

That's actually really neat! I had no idea.

John Deere served his apprenticeship in VT.

People in Vermont are obsessed with John Deere.

Some philatelists credit Brattleboro with producing America's first postage stamp in 1846.

Win.

Coldest temperature recorded in VT: -47 F degrees. Hottest: 106 F.

Okay that's real cold. I wonder when that was. Brrrrr.

Vermont has nearly one half of the dairy farms in New England.

Not shocking. You can smell it.

About half the milk consumed in New England is produced in VT.

Well, this correlates nicely with the previous fact.

More people live in a rural setting in VT than in an urban setting.

This is actually really cool considering my class on suburbia. Good job, Vermont. Hold down the fort.

VT has the least amount of violent crimes out of all 50 states.

Woo-hoo!

Montpelier is the smallest state capital in the U.S.

and Vergennes is the smallest city!

Until 1996, VT was the only state without a Wal-Mart.

I'm way too proud of this.

Montpelier is the only state capital without a McDonalds.

Impressive.

Vermont-born U.S. president Calvin Coolidge was the only president to be born on the 4th of July.

So, we're a bunch of McDonald hating hippies but also very naturally patriotic.

Ben & Jerry's gives their ice cream waste to local farmers who feed it to their hogs. The hogs seem to like every flavor except Mint Oreo.

This is just so stupid and so Vermont. I also just realized I hate the word "hog."

Wasn't that fun! Happy Break!