So I was up in the Northeast Kingdom yesterday, visiting the Museum of Everyday Life and other points of interest (more on that another time). I sailed past one of those points — Parker Pie in West Glover — and, looking for a driveway in which to turn around, I saw this road sign.

And that is another reason why I love Vermont. ’Nuf said.

Pamela Polston is a contributing arts and culture writer and editor. She cofounded Seven Days in 1995 with Paula Routly and served as arts editor, associate publisher and writer. Her distinctive arts journalism earned numerous awards from the Vermont Press Association, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and the New England Newspaper & Press Association. Pamela was inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2021, the Vermont Arts Council presented her with the Walter Cerf...