Jay W's Guest Post

My friend from Minnesota, Jay, was in Vermont helping his folks move from Barre to Burlington. Her stopped by last week with his Dad. It was great to see him and to meet his awesome Dad!!! This is his guest post:

I came to Peacham for Waverly's blue eyes. That was reward enough!

But also because everyone needs connections.

According to my mother, our ancestor, Simeon(?) Walker, was an original European settler of Peacham. He and others reportedly walked from their then-home in Connecticut to Peacham one spring in late 1700s and commenced to clear land they had purchased. When fall blew in, they returned to Conn. as they had nothing to sustain them through the winter. So in the spring, they walked back to Peacham and repeated the cycle for 4 years until enough land was cleared and leantos built that they could move their families there and hope to survive the winter.

Two hundred years later, my uncle gave up dairy farming on the hill in Cabot that overlooks the Cabot Coop Creamery on one side and the reservoir on the other. (My grandpa was a founder of the Cabot Coop). I moved from Vt to Minnesota for college and later a career in legal services, where I met Maryellen.

So it was cool to learn of the new stewards at Old Shaw Farm and I had to visit and see my friends and touch the soil that had drawn my family to beautiful and, we hope, again bountiful, Peacham.

Shalom, Salaam, Peace .... Jay Wilkinson