Changes

--People talk about preserving the character of things, but "character" is continually being lost.

--From the moment people came onto the scene, the dynamic began to shift.  Not just white people either: the early native hunters eliminated the mastodon and other pleistocene species when they came into North America about 15,000 years ago (There were other factors too).

--On a relative scale Vermont is in pretty good shape, (New Jersey) though if you try to imagine what has changed in the last 50 or 100 years, it is substantial.

--My little town of North Bennington is very cute, but there are a lot of things that junk it up to someone with a sensitive artistic eye.