Gribblenation

The town of Jamaica is located along Route 100 in the Green Mountains of Southern Vermont. It has just over 1,000 residents and consists of the villages of Jamaica Center, East Jamaica, and Rawsonville. Jamaica Memorial Library The community is not named after the Caribbean Island but the Natick/Algonquian for "beaver."  Both the West River and the Ball Mountain Brook run through Jamaica. One of the many historic homes in Jamaica. (Doug Kerr - May 2012) Since its charter in 1780, Jamaica has transitioned from a colonial timber industry community to an industrial wool industry in the mid-19th century, to a community driven by outdoor recreation (skiing, fishing, golf, etc.)  Nearby Jamaica State Park is a popular fishing, hiking, camping, and mountain biking destination. Jamaica Town Hall - In addition to the annual town meeting - Jamaica Town Hall hosts community activities and events. Jamaica continues the New England tradition of an annual town meeting.  Held the first...

  While everyone was enjoying their brat summer, I wound up exploring and went to quite a few different places in the process. Over Memorial Day Weekend in 2024, the destination for the long weekend was Quebec, which isn't a long haul from my home base in the Albany, New York area, but it's a place I haven't explored enough. On this second day of the trip, I started and ended in the suburbs of Quebec City, made my way south to the mountains near the border with the United States, then towards Quebec's Eastern Townships and the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont before heading back to home to Upstate New York. Plus there were some surprises along the way, which is typical for the types of multi-day road trips I take. Here is a collection of photo highlights from the third day of that three-day adventure.  After checking out of my hotel, I decided to take some convoluted way to a viewpoint of the Quebec Bridge. Seeing that it was Memorial Day in the U.S, it was just a regular M...