New England Diary

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'Tossed salad'

View of Rutland-Southern Vermont Regional Airport. Vermont’s mountainous terrain and associated weather can make flying there exciting.

The Burlington airport in the 1940s

“Vermonters who try to fly in and out of the state when the weather is unsettled know how it feels to be a piece of lettuce in a tossed salad.’’

— Charles T. Morrissey, in his Vermont: A History (1984)