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1724 Brattleboro
became the first permanent English settlement in Vermont.
(Reuters, 8/25/06)
1730 The French arrived in
Swanton, Vermont, and the plague followed. The local Abenaki Indians
faded into the woods.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.J7)
1775 May 10, Ethan Allen and his
83 Green Mountain Boys captured the British-held fortress at
Ticonderoga, N.Y., on the western shore of Lake Champlain. They took
the entire garrison captive without firing a shot. This was the 1st
aggressive American action in the War of Independence.
(AP, 5/10/97)(HN, 5/10/98)(ON, 3/00, p.4)
1777 Jan 15, The people of New
Connecticut declared their independence. The tiny republic became the
state of Vermont in 1791.
(AP, 1/15/99)(ST, 3/2/04, p.A1)
1777 Jul 2, Vermont became the 1st
American colony to abolish slavery. [see Mar 1, 1780]
(SC, 7/2/02)
1777 Aug 16, American forces won
the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington, Vt.
(AP, 8/16/97)
1777 The Vermont constitution
outlawed slavery, allowed universal male suffrage with no property
requirements, and called for the direct election of the governor.
Vermont also called for a system of public education.
(SFC, 4/27/00, p.A5)
1777 Vermont including the town of
Killington declared independence from New York and New Hampshire. It
became a country unto itself, coined its own money, set up its own
postal service and elected its own president. The Republic of Vermont
stayed independent until 1791.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.A6)(ST, 3/2/04, p.A5)
1778 Ethan Allen, the hero of
Ticonderoga, was released from prison in England as part of a prisoner
exchange.
(ON, 3/00, p.6)
1779 Ethan Allen authored “A
Narrative of Ethan Allen’s Captivity.”
(ON, 3/00, p.6)
1789 Ethan Allen (b.1738), leader
of Vermont’s Green Mountain Boys, died. In 1949 Stewart H. Holbrook
authored “Ethan Allen.” In 1969 Charles A. Jellison authored “Ethan
Allen: Frontier Rebel.”
(WUD, 1994 p.39)(ON, 3/00, p.6)
1790 Jul 31, The U.S. Patent
Office granted its first patent to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont, developer
of a new method the manufacture of pot and pearl ash, potash. [see Apr
10]
(HN, 7/31/98)(HNQ, 8/6/99)
1790 Oct 28, NY gave up claims to
Vermont for $30,000.
(MC, 10/28/01)
1791 Mar 4, Vermont was admitted
as the 14th state. It was the first addition to the original 13
colonies.
(HN, 3/4/98) (AP, 3/4/98)
1792 Apr 4, American abolitionist
Thaddeus Stevens, U.S. Radical Republican congressional leader, was
born in Danville, Vt..
(AP, 4/4/98)(HN, 4/4/98)
1793 Captain John Norton founded a
stoneware pottery shop in Bennington. The wares were rarely marked
until 1823. Various members of the family worked at the pottery until
it closed shop in 1894.
(SFC, 2/18/98, Z1 p.3)
1794 Jan 13, President Washington
approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American
flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union. The
number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.
(AP, 1/13/01)
1798 Jan 30, A brawl broke out in
the House of Representatives in Philadelphia. Matthew Lyon of Vermont
spat in the face of Roger Griswold of Connecticut, who responded by
attacking him with a hickory walking stick. Lyon was re-elected
congressman while serving a jail sentence for violating the Sedition
Acts of 1798.
(AP, 1/30/98)(SFC, 4/27/00, p.A5)(WSJ, 10/29/04,
p.W10)
1798 Vermont Congressman Matthew
Lyon (1749-1822), Irish-born former indentured servant, became the 1st
person indicted under the Sedition Act of 1918. Lyon was convicted of
sedition after he printed his honest opinion of Pres. John Adams.
Vermont re-elected Lyon to Congress while he served his jail time. He
later represented Kentucky (1803-1811) in the US House of
Representatives.
(SFC, 3/24/00, p.B3)(WSJ, 10/29/04, p.W10)
1799 Jan 25, Eliakim Spooner of
Vermont received the 1st US patent for a seeding machine.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1801 Jun 1, Mormon leader Brigham
Young (d.1877), the second president of the Mormon Church, was born in
Whitingham, Vt.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1801 In Grafton, Enos Lovell
converted his 2-story Federal-style house into an inn.
(HT, 5/97, p.10)
1803 Jan 3, A widow wrote this
epitaph in a Vermont cemetery: Sacred to the memory of my husband John
Barnes who died January 3, 1803 His comely young widow, aged 23, has
many qualifications of a good wife, and yearns to be comforted.
(e-mail, Riddiough, 5/16/99)
1803-1876 Orestes Augustus Brownson, American author
and clergyman was born in Stockbridge, Vt. At first a
Presbyterian, he later became a Universalist, a Unitarian minister,
head of his own church, a transcendentalist, and finally (1844) a Roman
Catholic. As a writer and magazine editor, Brownson dealt with
religious questions and fought social injustice: "We have heard enough
of the liberties and the rights of man, it is high time to hear
something of the duties of men and the rights of authority." In 1992
Gregory Butler wrote the biography: "In Search of the American Spirit,"
and in 1999 R.A. Herrera published "Orestes Brownson: Sign of
Contradiction." http://encyclopedia.com/articles/01924.html
(WSJ, 5/28/99, p.W11)
1805 Dec 23, Joseph Smith Junior
(d.1844), principal founder of the Mormon religious movement, was born
in Sharon, Vermont.
(SFC, 4/9/96, A-7)(AP, 12/23/05)
1811 Aug 3, Elisha Graves Otis
(d.1861), inventor (safe elevator), was born. The Vermont native, was a
master mechanic working at a bedstead factory in Yonkers, N.Y., when he
built a hoisting machine with two sets of metal teeth at the car’s
sides. If the lifting rope broke, the teeth would lock into place,
preventing the car from falling. Otis ever realized the potential of
his invention. His sons built the Otis Elevator Company, enabling the
skylines of cities throughout the world to be transformed with
skyscrapers.
(www.famousamericans.net/elishagravesotis/)(ON,
5/05, p.12)
1811 Sep 3, John Humphrey Noyes
was born in Vermont. He founded the Oneida Community (Perfectionists)
in 1848.
(MC, 9/3/01)(SSFC, 12/29/02, p.A6)
1820 Norwich Univ. began as a
private military college in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
(Hem, 9/04, p.69)
c1820 The Manleys built a 2-story
home in Dorset later known as the “Old Stone House.” In 1908 the
property was purchased by Edwin Lefevre, best known as the author of
“Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.” In 2000 the house was selling for
$1.495 million.
(SFC, 9/1/00, p.W10)
1829 Oct 5, the 21st president of
the United States, Chester Alan Arthur, was born in Fairfield, Vt. Some
sources list 1830.
(AP, 10/5/07)
1848 Sep 13, Dr. John Martyn
Harlow treated Phinneas Gage in Vermont for a head injury from a
tamping iron that had pierced the man’s skull during a blasting
accident. Gage survived until 1860, but with definite personality
changes that Dr. Harlow tracked.
(ON, 10/02, p.9)(Econ, 12/23/06, Survey p.3)
1864 Oct 19, The northernmost
action of the American Civil War took place in the Vermont town of St.
Albans. Some 25 escaped Confederate POWs led by Kentuckian Bennett
Young (21) raided the town near the Canadian border with the intent of
robbing three banks and burning the town. While they managed to leave
town and hide out in Canada with more than $200,000, their attempts to
burn down the town failed. Most of the raiders were captured and
imprisoned in Canada and later released after a court ruled the
robberies in St. Albans were acts of war.
(HNQ, 12/9/98)(ON, 11/99, p.11)(MC, 10/19/01)
1865 Feb 9, Wilson Bentley
(d.1931) was born on a farm near Jericho, Vermont. His interest in snow
flakes led him to make the 1st photographs of snow crystals on Jan 15,
1885.
(ON, 11/04, p.4)
1872 Jul 4, John Calvin Coolidge
(d.1933) 30th President of the United States (1923-29), was born in
Plymouth, Vermont. Calvin Coolidge, also known as ‘Silent Cal,’ was a
Republican; Vice President from 1921-23 and succeeded to the Presidency
on the death of Warren Harding in 1923; elected President in 1924 and
served a full term. He was especially known for his economy of
language. A lady dinner companion during his presidency told him she
had a bet she could get him to say more than two words; he replied:
"You lose." "Little progress can be made by merely attempting to
repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good."
(AP, 7/4/97)(HN, 7/4/98)(IB, Internet, 12/7/98)(AP,
12/26/99)
1885 Jan 15, Wilson Bentley
(1865-1931) of Jericho, Vermont, made the world’s 1st clear photographs
of snow crystals.
(ON, 11/04, p.4)
1894 Jun 17, 1st US poliomyelitis
epidemic broke out in Rutland, Vermont.
(MC, 6/17/02)
1901 Jul 28, Rudy Vallee, singer
(Vagabond Dreams, My Time Is Your Time), was born in Vermont.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1903 Jul 26, Dr. Horatio Nelson
Jackson of Vermont and his mechanic Sewell Croker arrived in NYC
completing the first cross-country automobile trip in 63 days after
leaving SF. On July 26, 2003 Peter Kesling and Charlie Wake completed a
rerun of the original trip.
(WSJ, 7/19/02, p.W9)(WSJ, 5/7/03, p.B1)(SSFC,
7/27/03, p.A2)(ON, 9/04, p.12)
1909 Oct 26, General Oliver Otis
Howard (b.1830), former Union Civil War commander, co-founder of Howard
Univ., and Indian Commissioner, died in Burlington, Vermont. His books
included “My Life and Experiences among Our Hostile Indians” (1907).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_O._Howard)
1910-1930 The 265-mile Long Trail hiking trail was
created.
(SFC, 4/27/00, p.A5)
1911 Jul 4, 105°F (41°C)
at Vernon, Vermont (state record).
(Maggio, 98)
1931 Dec 23, Wilson Bentley
(1865-1931), photographer of snow flakes, died at his farm in Jericho,
Vermont. He had just published a book of 2,453 of his finest snow
crystal photos.
(ON, 11/04, p.6)
1934 Jan 28, The 1st US rope ski
tow began operation at Woodstock, Vermont.
(MC, 1/28/02)
1943 May 29, Norman Rockwell’s
portrait of “Rosie the Riveter” appeared on the cover of “The Saturday
Evening Post.” Rockwell’s model was Mary Keefe (19) of Arlington,
Vermont. In 2002 the painting sold at auction for $4,959,500.
(AP, 5/29/97)(AH, 10/02, p.10)
1946 Nov 24, Ted Bundy (d.1989),
serial murderer, was born Burlington, Vt.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1948 Nov 17, Howard Dean, governor
of Vermont (1991-2002), was born.
(SFC, 6/24/03, p.A4)
1954 Vermont elected Consuelo
Bailey as lieutenant governor.
(SFC, 4/27/00, p.A5)
1958 Robert Stafford (1913-2006)
was elected governor of Vermont he served 2 years and then won his 1st
term in the US Congress. In 1971 he was appointed to the US Senate.
(SSFC, 12/24/06, p.D7)
1962 Phil Hoff became the state’s
first Democratic governor in over 100 years.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.A6)
1963 Dean Mathey, a prominent
investment banker, established the Windham Foundation. Its mandate
included the restoration of Grafton Village in Windham County.
(HT, 5/97, p.10)
1963-1969 Denys Rackley (d.1998 at 76), Carthusian
monk, helped build the only American monastery of the Carthusian order,
the Charterhouse of the Transfiguration in Arlington, Vt. He trained at
the Carthusian order’s mother house in La Grand Chartreuse, France,
where the order is supported by the sale of its Chartreuse liqueur.
(SFC, 2/24/98, p.A22)
1969 Fish and wildlife officials
in New York and Vermont banned fish shooting. In 1970 the Vermont
Legislature re-instated the sport.
(SFC, 5/11/04, p.A2)
1970 Apr 16, A fire at Johnson’s
Pasture Commune left 4 people dead.
(SFC, 8/10/98, p.A10)
1976 Vermont Gov. Tom Salmon
granted the Abenaki Indians recognition. The following year a new
governor rescinded recognition.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.J7)
1977 Cora Partridge (d.1999 at 82)
wrote "Vermont, the State with the Storybook Past." The Vermont history
book was revised in 1981.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A20)
1978 Howard Dean graduated from
Albert Einstein College of medicine and began practicing as a physician
of internal medicine.
(SFC, 11/24/03, p.A13)
1983-1986 Howard Dean served as a member of the
Vermont House of Representatives.
(SFC, 11/24/03, p.A13)
1986-1991 Howard Dean served as lieutenant governor
of Vermont.
(SFC, 11/24/03, p.A13)
1987 Mar 28, Maria Augusta von
Trapp (Trapp Family Singers), whose life inspired the Rodgers and
Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music," died in Morrisville, Vt., at
age 82.
(AP, 3/28/97)(MC, 3/28/02)
1987 Jun 19, Vermont’s Ben &
Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice
Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia.
(www.foodreference.com/html/html/june19.html)(http://tinyurl.com/ptccd)
1989 Sep 15, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author Robert Penn Warren (b.1905), the first poet
laureate of the United States, died in Stratton, Vt., at age 84. He
authored 16 poetry collections and 10 novels that included the 1946
"All the King’s Men."
(WSJ, 2/27/97, p.A15)(AP, 9/14/99)
1991 May 8, Concert pianist Rudolf
Serkin died in Guilford, Vermont, at age 88.
(AP,
5/8/01)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Serkin)
1991-2002 Howard Dean served as governor of Vermont.
(SFC, 11/24/03, p.A13)
1998 Jan 8-9, The US Northeast and
Canada were hit with a severe ice storm and at least 16 people were
reported killed. Millions of people were left without power in upper
New York, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire.
(SFC, 1/9/98, p.A3)(SFC, 1/10/98, p.A8)
1998 Mar 19, In Vermont a bomb
exploded in a teenager’s bedroom. Christopher Marquis (17) was killed
and his mother was injured. A package bomb was suspected.
(SFC, 3/20/98, p.A3)
1998 Mar 20, An Indiana man, Chris
Dean (35), was arrested for sending the pipe bomb that killed
Christopher Marquis. Marquis had defrauded Dean in a $400 trade of
Citizens Band radio equipment arranged on the Internet.
(SFC, 3/21/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun, Kate Logan, a senior at
Long Trail High School, disrobed in the middle of her commencement
speech in a gesture to symbolize the freedom and confidence she learned
in school.
(WSJ, 6/19/98, p.W13)
1998 Jun 27, Heavy thunderstorms
in the Northeast and Midwest left at least 5 people dead. The annual
Ben & Jerry’s One World One Heart festival at Sugarbush, Vermont,
was cancelled.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, p.A8)
1999 Sep 1, Karen Maple (36) was
jailed at Chittenden Regional Correctional for refusing to show up for
hearings over the home schooling for her son (15), who was declared
truant from public school. Maple was released Sep 14 and ordered to
take her son to a Vermont agency for evaluation of his educational
needs.
(WSJ, 9/10/99, p.A18)(SFC, 9/15/99, p.A6)
1999 Dec 20, A Vermont court ruled
that gay and lesbian couples must be granted the same rights as people
in heterosexual marriages.
(SFC, 12/21/99, p.A1)
2000 Mar 16, The state House of
Representatives voted 76-69 for a bill to give same-sex couples all the
rights and responsibilities granted to married heterosexuals.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.A6)
2000 Apr 12, It was reported that
the Vermont-based Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream maker would be sold to
Unilever Corp.
(SFC, 4/13/00, p.D1)
2000 Apr 25, In Vermont the
Legislature approved civil unions for homosexuals and Gov. Howard Dean
promised to sign the legislation effective July 1.
(SFC, 4/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Apr 26, Vermont Governor
Howard Dean signed the nation’s first bill allowing same-sex couples to
form civil unions.
(AP, 4/26/01)
2000 Jul 1, The marriage-like law
for civil unions for homosexuals became effective.
(SFEC, 7/2/00, p.A1)
2001 Mar 21, In Vermont a flock of
234 sheep were seized by federal agents over fears of infection with a
version of mad cow disease. The sheep had originated in Belgium in 1996.
(SFC, 3/22/01, p.A3)
2001 Apr 9, A train derailed over
the Connecticut River and some 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel were
released.
(SFC, 4/10/01, p.A3)
2001 May 24, Senator James
Jeffords of Vermont (67) announced that he would quit the Republican
Party and declare himself an independent. The switch would become
official upon the completion of the tax-cut bill.
(SFC, 5/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 5, The US Senate went
under Democratic control as Vermont Sen. James Jeffords changed his
party affiliation from Republican to Independent.
(SFC, 6/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 16, An anthrax laced
letter was found in quarantined congressional mail addressed to Sen.
Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont. It was found to contain billions of
spores, enough to kill 100,000 people.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/21/01, p.A8)(SFC,
11/26/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 6, Robert A. Woodward
(37) brandished a knife and was shot 7 times by police in the All Souls
Unitarian Universalist Church. He died shortly later in a hospital.
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.E5)
2002 May 31, Vermont Gov. Howard
Dean filed papers with the Federal Election Commission for "Dean for
America" presidential-campaign organization.
(WSJ, 6/23/03, p.A4)
2002 Jun 13, Gov. Howard Dean
signed a bill making Vermont the 1st state to require drug companies to
disclose payments of over $25 to medical-care providers.
(WSJ, 6/14/02, p.A1)
2002 David Mamet authored “South
of the Northeast Kingdom,” a memoir and essay about Vermont.
(SSFC, 10/12/02, p.C10)
2003 Jan 9, Vermont Gov. Howard
Dean ended 12 years as state governor.
(WSJ, 6/23/03, p.A4)
2003 Jun 23, Former Vermont Gov.
Howard Dean announced that he's running for president.
(WSJ, 6/23/03, p.A4)
2003 The population of Vermont at
this time was about 610,000.
(Econ, 6/28/03, p.32)
2004 Jan 22, Gov. Douglas signaled
his interest in the state buying a share of power dams on the
Connecticut and Deerfield Rivers.
(USAT, 1/20/04, p.12A)
2004 Jan, Vermont began arraigning
some jailed prisoners by video.
(USAT, 1/20/04, p.12A)
2004 Mar 2, Residents of
Killington, Vermont, voted to join New Hampshire due to a dispute over
property taxes.
(ST, 3/2/04, p.A5)(AP, 3/2/04)
2004 Nov 2, Jim Douglas (R) was
elected governor of Vermont.
(SFC, 11/4/04, p.A18)
2004 Nov 21, Noel Perrin (b.1927),
Dartmouth professor and Vermont farmer, died. In 2006 Terry S. Osborne
published “Best Person Rural,” a collection of Perrin’s best essays.
(www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2004/11/23.html)(WSJ, 11/24/06, p.W8)
2005 Feb 12, Howard Dean (b.1948),
former Vermont governor and presidential candidate, was elected
chairman of the Democratic Party.
(SSFC, 2/13/05, p.A3)
2005 Aug 13, James Petersen (51),
a Univ. of Vermont anthropology professor on a research trip to Brazil,
was killed while he was being robbed in Iranduba near the Amazon River.
Three suspects were taken into custody.
(AP, 8/14/05)
2006 Apr 8, Democratic Party
leaders in Vermont passed a motion asking Congress to immediately begin
impeachment proceedings against President Bush.
(Reuters, 4/9/06)
2006 May 9, Vermont Gov. Jim
Douglas signed a health reform package to provide health insurance to
as many as 25,000 uninsured residents.
(SFC, 5/10/06, p.A3)
2006 Jun 26, The US Supreme Court
ruled that Vermont's 1997 limits on contributions and spending in
political campaigns are too low and improperly hinder the ability of
candidates to raise money and speak to voters.
(www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/26/supremecourt/main1751377.shtml)
2006 Aug 24, In Essex, Vermont,
Christopher Williams (26) shot and killed 2 people after breaking up
with his girlfriend, and then shot himself in the head. Williams killed
Andrea Lambesis (57), the mother of his girlfriend at her home. He then
went to Essex Elementary School where he killed teacher Mary
Shanks (56) and wounded 2 others.
(SFC, 8/25/06, p.A5)(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Oct 7, Michelle Gardner-Quinn
(21), a Univ. of Vermont senior from Arlington, Va., was reported
missing. After chasing leads for nearly a week, police
investigating her disappearance got a break when a group of hikers
spotted a body in a rocky ravine. A suspect, Brian Rooney (36), was
arrested Oct 13 on unrelated charges of sex abuse in two other Vermont
counties. In 2008 Rooney was convicted of murder.
(AP, 10/14/06)(AP, 5/22/08)
2006 Nov 7, Bernard Sanders from
Vermont was elected to the U.S. Senate over GOP opponent Richard
Tarrant and became the first socialist in the U.S. Senate. He had been
a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont for 16 years
(1991-2007). For purposes of committee assignments he is counted as a
Democrat.
(SSFC, 11/5/06,
p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders)
2006 Dec 23, Robert Stafford
(1913), former governor of Vermont (1958-1960) and US Senator
(1971-1989), died. In 1988 the US Congress renamed the Federal
Guaranteed Student Loan Program as the Robert T. Stafford Student Loan
Program.
(SSFC, 12/24/06, p.D7)
2007 Apr 20, Vermont senators
voted to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President
Dick Cheney, saying their actions have raised "serious questions of
constitutionality."
(AP, 4/20/07)
2008 Jan 30, It was reported that
bats were dying off by the thousands as they hibernated in caves and
mines around New York and Vermont, sending researchers scrambling to
find the cause of mysterious condition dubbed "white nose syndrome." Up
to 11,000 bats were found dead last winter and many more were showing
signs of illness this winter.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Mar 4, In Vermont voters in
Brattleboro and Marlboro passed a nonbinding, symbolic measure that
instructs town police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney for "crimes against our Constitution" and
"extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to
prosecute them."
(Reuters, 3/5/08)
2008 Mar 4, John McCain clinched
the Republican nomination. Hillary Clinton won primaries in Texas, Ohio
and Rhode Island, halting Barack Obama's winning streak. Obama won in
Vermont. Obama came away with a large share of delegates, too, in
counting that continued.
(AP, 3/5/08)
2008 Jun 18, Tasha Tudor (b.1915),
American children’s book illustrator, died in Vermont.
(WSJ, 6/25/08,
p.D7)(www.tashatudor.legacy.com/LMW/HomePage.aspx)
2008 Jun 25, Brooke Bennett of
Braintree, Vermont, disappeared and was found dead on July 2. Federal
prosecutors later charged Michael Jacques (42) with drugging, sexually
assaulting and killing his 12-year-old niece. Prosecutors also said
that he coerced another girl into aiding his plot by claiming to be
part of a child-sex club that sometimes selected girls for
"termination."
(AP, 10/1/08)
2008 Jul 2, In Vermont the body of
a missing girl (12), whose uncle (Michael Jacques) allegedly planned to
force her into a sex ring the day she disappeared, was found in
Randolph, not far from his house.
(AP, 7/2/08)
2009 Apr 7, Vermont became the
first state to legalize same sex marriage through a legislature’s vote.
(SFC, 4/8/09, p.A5)
2009 May 23, It was reported that
millions of bats in at least 7 US states (Connecticut, New York,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia) have
died from white-nose syndrome, a fungal diseases.
(Econ, 5/23/09, p.36)
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