Escaping the heat into high culture

Entrance to the museum, which is in St. Johnsbury, in Vermont’s “Northeast Kingdom.’’ The museum and the town are very interesting places.

“We climb the stone staircase

of the redstone Victorian building,

my father, my aunt, my husband carrying our baby,

escaping from the mid-July heat.

My mother is missing, dead one year.’’

— From “Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium,’’ by Jane Shore