Flowers for Bennington, VT

Stand anywhere in Bennington and the 306-foot Battle Monument finds you — the stone obelisk over Old Bennington marks a Revolutionary fight the town has never stopped being proud of, and just below it, in the churchyard of the Old First Church, Robert Frost is buried under the line about having a lover's quarrel with the world. That history sits a mile from a working downtown of Main Street storefronts, and flowers here move between the two. A typical afternoon runs anniversary bouquets to the Federal houses of Old Bennington, get-well arrangements to Southwestern Vermont Medical Center on Dewey Street, congratulations flowers up to Bennington College off Route 67A, and sympathy pieces staged for services at the town's churches. Then the roads spread out — US-7 north to Shaftsbury and Arlington, VT-9 east into the Woodford hills, and the covered-bridge lanes along the Walloomsac where the Chiselville and Silk Road bridges still carry traffic.

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