Our Lady of the Snows, Woodstock VT

Our Lady of the Snows, Woodstock VT, originally uploaded by PhilipJones.

Woodstock’s Mt. Tom: The Pogue

What is the Pogue, and how did it get its name? The Pogue is a man-made 14-acre pond tucked into the hills of the Marsh-Billings- Rockefeller National Historic Park’s Mount Tom Forest. Naturally a spring-fed boggy area, it was created in the 1880s when an earthen dam was constructed. It is rumored to be bottomless! The origin of