The Lepine Girls of Mud City: Embracing Vermont - Geer, Evelyn Grace
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The Lepines" story began in Quebec, from where Maurice and Imelda immigrated to Vermont during the Great Depression. The family farmed, lived off the rich Vermont landscape and instilled a love for it in their daughters, Gert, Jeanette and Therese. As adults, "the Girls" taught school, traveled the world and worked for President Johnson but never forgot their roots. All three returned to Mount Sterling Farm, raising their famed Jersey cows and embodying Vermont's agricultural tradition. Their story is one of hope and valor--of a family who loved their home and neighbors and left their land as a lasting gift for the world.…mehr

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The Lepines" story began in Quebec, from where Maurice and Imelda immigrated to Vermont during the Great Depression. The family farmed, lived off the rich Vermont landscape and instilled a love for it in their daughters, Gert, Jeanette and Therese. As adults, "the Girls" taught school, traveled the world and worked for President Johnson but never forgot their roots. All three returned to Mount Sterling Farm, raising their famed Jersey cows and embodying Vermont's agricultural tradition. Their story is one of hope and valor--of a family who loved their home and neighbors and left their land as a lasting gift for the world.
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Evelyn Grace Geer lives in Sterling Valley in Morristown, Vermont. She earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in English with a concentration in creative writing at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont. She was the managing editor of the college newspaper while she was a student there and wrote a chapbook of poetry, "Blossoms to Bones." Evelyn was an art columnist for the Stowe Reporter and has written for Vermont Golf magazine. Her writing has also been published in The Stowe Guide magazine and the Burlington Free Press. Evelyn wrote a weekly two-page feature about life in Jericho and Underhill, Vermont, which appeared in the weekly Morrisville newspaper, the News and Citizen. She also finds an avenue for her artistic expression as a photographer and as a painter of pictures. She studied oil painting with Ken Leslie at Johnson State and then with the award-winning watercolorist Lisa Forster Beach of Stowe, Vermont. Evelyn shown her work in galleries in New England, and her paintings are in private collections in homes in Vermont.