Photo: Bernie's Homemade Hippie House in the Woods

[cali]

More great pics here;


http://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2016/02/bernie-sanders-vermont-000610?slide=2

[thereismore]

1. Awesome. The whole gallery is great. nt

[beam me up scottie]

2. Those pictures make me homesick. I think this is Hero's Welcome in North Hero:

We used to buy 2 cent pieces of bubblegum there when I was a kid.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Great photography

[cali]

5. Agree

Really good job

[PufPuf23]

4. Thank you. I recommend this nice photo essay. nt

[Duval]

6. Nice! My Grandmother Harper had a grocery store behind her house in Kinston, NC. The picture with

the chickens hanging in the back yard reminded me of her store. She put my Dad through UNC and Med School with her store.

Just loved the picture, cali!

[cali]

7. That little place is just a few minutes from where I live

Another spot there.

[draa]

8. Here's another cool fact.

Back when Bernie moved to Vermont he would cook over something his friends called a "Berno."

A Berno is a coffee can stuffed with a roll of toilet paper soaked in lighter fluid. A homemade can of Sterno if you will.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

9. Put a warning before you post animal cruelty pictures!

[cali]

11. Sorry.

[LuckyLib]

10. Beautiful photos and interesting folks -- many clearly struggling.

Bernie gets the lives lived here, the struggles of working folks.

[ieoeja]

12. So that's why he made the switch from carpenter to politician!

[Fast Walker 52]

15. LOL!

[handmade34]

13. great photos

even though a Republican, this very sweet speech by Calvin Coolidge has always tugged at my heartstrings...

Vermont is a state I love. I could not look upon the peaks of Ascutney, Killington, Mansfield, and Equinox, without being moved in a way that no other scene could move me. It was here that I first saw the light of day; here I received my bride, here my dead lie pillowed on the loving breast of our eternal hills.

I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the Union, and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont

Vermont was a perfect place for Bernie to call home...

(my late husband talked of parties at Bernie's house in Stannard -before me)

[cali]

19. Mine too. Love that speech

[Fast Walker 52]

14. I can just see the GOP ads using this

"this is what America will look like after Sanders is done..."

[jtuck004]

18. That's fine...We can show a picture of Evilhair with his daughter on his knee because that is what

it will look like when he is done.

Nothin' but whitey.

[Bluenorthwest]

16. Great photos, the faces and the places of your beautiful State.

And thanks for Bernie, by the way. It took Vermont to put him where he is and that's appreciated.

[Zorra]

17. OMG, Bernie is totally family!

Looks like the house we built in the 70's, the house my son built last year, and the houses many dear old friends still live in.

So homesick for the Pacific Northwest right now.

[Dont call me Shirley]

20. Went skiing once in Killington, so beautiful.

[jg10003]

21. I wouldn't want to spend a Vermont winter in that.

[JDPriestly]

22. Sorry. If you read the captions, that is a hit piece on Bernie.

They pretty much scoured the countryside of Vermont to get nasty comments about Bernie from Republicans. Gotcha piece.

Ugly slams at BERNIE from a state that has elected and re-elected him time after time.

A couole of positive statements but mostly negative views that, based on electin reviews represent a conservative bunch not typical of Vermont. I base my statement on Bernie's record of re-elections.

[Peace Patriot]

23. "..anything on the side of the people who were getting walked on, Bernie was always there..."

If there was anything on the side of the people who were getting walked on, Bernie was always there, I don't care if there were 10 people or thousands. --Dexter Randall, a dairy farmer for Organic Valley (who got shafted by Reagan and nearly lost his farm) (photo caption at the link)

Photo #12 is a gem! Captioned: "Benches with political party labels of Democrats, Republicans and Sandernistas in front of a General Store and gas station on North Hero Island." Wonderful pic! Needs to go viral!

Wonderful photos! Thanks so much for posting this! I really enjoyed it.

I totally relate to hippie houses and organic farmers. Gun culture, not so much. I do see the connection between hunters and nature. I don't see why they have to have assault weapons to take down a deer. Some weapons have only one purpose: war or mass murder. I think there is serious cultural disconnect between true hunters--people who live close to nature (whatever I may think of their hunting method)--and the godawful gun violence in overcrowded urban areas by both the police and ordinary citizens. Neither culture seems to understand the other--big disconnect that has turned our cities into war zones--with, for instance, hunters advocating quite insane "gun rights" and politicians pandering to this rule of mayhem (mostly because of NRA $millions into lobbying and into their campaigns, and into propaganda).

Difficult, difficult issue! At least Sanders sees all sides of it and may thereby be a good mediator. (He will also have an impact by reforming the very corrupt campaign contribution and lobbying system.) On the gun issue, he is very like a high wire artist with one foot on the wire, the other foot dangling in air and arms wheeling for balance. But that's perhaps where a political leader should be on such a divisive issue. Hunters aren't evil--far from it. Easy weapons to massacre kindergarteners is the black hole we are falling into over "gun rights." A tightrope act over a black hole! That's guns in America! We are in danger of being sucked down into a place from which no light can emerge. Sanders has found the right balance on many issues. Maybe he will on this one as well, coming from this old-fashioned, homey-hippie-Vermont farmer culture.