• Illustrations
• Preface
• Tourism and the Reworking of Rural Vermont
• Two Worlds of Work: Nostalgia and Progress in Turn-of-the-Century Vermont
• Abandonment and Resettlement: The Promises and Threats of Summer Homes
• Accessing the Rural Landscape: Driving, Hiking, and the Making of Unspoiled Vermont
• The Four-Season State: Creating a New Seasonal Cycle
• New Paces for Old Places: Vermont’s Mid-Century Ski Landscape
• Balancing the Rural: Planning, Legislation, and the Search for Control
• Epilogue: The View from Vermont
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index