David K. Stone: Vermont - Monument and Green Mountain Boys

Artist: David K. Stone
1922 - 2001
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1991
Image Size: 24 by 16.25 inches
Overall Size: 26.75 by 23.75 inches
Medium: Oil on Masonite

A budding young journalist once asked a powerful man: "Senator, how did you get your start in life?" To this the eminent statesman replied: "I was born on a hillside farm in Vermont and at an early age I rolled down." This is Vermont, a land of ups and downs. Over four hundred named peaks rise inside its boundaries and only a tiny portion of the appropriately named "Green Mountain State" is arable. It has been said that a Vermont farmer grows more rocks than he does crops. But this is not a deterrent to the people of Vermont, in fact, such apparent hardships grow a hardy and resilient people. It is a slice of Americana, birthplace of U.S. Presidents Chester Arthur and Calvin Coolidge and the first state to outlaw slavery. In 1609 Samuel de Champlain became the first European to lay eyes upon the green hills of Vermont, sailing upon the lake which would later bear his name. At the future site of Fort Ticonderoga, de Champlain clashed with Iroquois Indians. Blood has been shed many times on Vermont soil, and especially important is the Battle of Bennington. Here, the Stars and Stripes were carried into battle for the very first time in 1777; the Green Mountain Boys who carried the flag were among the toughest men of the Revolutionary War. Indeed, Vermont is what America is.

This artwork originally appeared on the Fleetwood® First Day of Issue Maximum Card for the U.S. 29¢ Vermont Statehood stamp issued March 1, 1991.

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