A more typical Vermont village than Putney could scarcely be imagined.

In retirement, he served for four years on the school board of his Vermont village, where he continued to press for a firmly traditionalist curriculum.

And that's another good reason to visit Plymouth Notch, for it is a near-perfect model of a Vermont village almost a century ago.

Ignat Solzenhitsyn repeated the family's appreciation to the residents of the tiny Vermont village where the family was able to live out of the public eye.

The exception may be the southern Vermont village of Manchester because it boldly embraces New England eclecticism.

The mayor of a Vermont village dies and his much younger wife, Anne Crandall, takes his place in office.

East Orange is the Vermont village at its most basic and remote, the first simple note in an endless variation.

It is possible for a Vermont village to become a city.

LEAD: A picture caption on Aug. 5 with an article about Vermont villages misidentified a building and its location.

Our base of operations was the quintessential picture-perfect Vermont village of Woodstock, about a 25-minute drive from each ski area.