I'm sure Vermonters will be interested to learn that their entire state is an historic district!

Those of us in the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation only wish it was. Tradition dies hard up here in the hills, though, and many people continue to paint their old barns red (if they paint them at all). Red was, indeed, a cheap color (made from earth pigments). An interesting sidebar on barn painting -- Ever see big white diamonds painted on barn doors? That's so Farmer John can see where the door is in driving snow or dark of night. Anyway, most new barns I see do tend to be other colors, particularly white.

Flatlander