In 1900, there were 33,104 farmers in Vermont and no IBM employees ... 2.5 hours from Boston and about 1.5 hours from Hartford. Mount Snow is not named for the white stuff, but rather for a ...

A new book, "Mohawk Mountain Ski Area: The Birth of Snowmaking" by James Shay, charts that history. Walt Schoenknecht founded Mohawk in Connecticut and Mount Snow in Vermont. They opened, respectively ...