Lake Champlain lies in a valley between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Vermont, however, still won the right for its researchers to ask for money under the National Sea Grant Program.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

This was because of efforts by Patrick Leahy, a senator who has represented Vermont for more than 30 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

The eastern state of Vermont is proud of its beautiful Green Mountains so it calls itself the Green Mountain State.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Every state is different. The association says Vermont has one nurse for every two hundred seventy-five students.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

It is also home to one of the state's oldest and largest schools: the University of Vermont.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

The sweet,golden syrup is made from the sap harvested in spring from Vermont's sugar maple trees.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

Emma Willard was teaching in Vermont when she became an activist for women's rights in education.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

Martin Henry Freeman, the first black college president in the United States, was born in Rutland,Vermont.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

Vermont-based ice cream company Ben and Jerrys named an ice cream flavor after her.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

One island in Vermont, Isle La Motte, is known for its prehistoric geological formations.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Sterling College in Craftsbury Common,Vermont, is one of the colleges that supports sustainable agriculture.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Lake Champlain and the fertile Champlain Valley are in the northwestern part of Vermont.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

Eight were rated as leaders: Connecticut,Massachusetts, Minnesota,New Hampshire, New Jersey,Ohio, Vermont and Wisconsin.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

Anne Morrow Lindbergh died at her home in Vermont in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Lisa Purcell worked for years at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science.

VOA: special.2011.07.11

Lake Champlain borders two states, New York and Vermont, and Quebec, Canada.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

One day,Sylvie's grandmother had visited them and had chosen Sylvie from all her brothers and sisters to be the one to help her on her farm in Vermont.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

The capital of Vermont is Montpelier, in the center of the state.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

General Electric manufactures airplane engine parts in Rutland and North Clarendon,Vermont.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

The largest is Burlington, a city of 38,000 people in Vermont.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

John Dewey was born in Burlington,Vermont, in eighteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

A congressman from Vermont, Justin Smith Morrill,wrote the legislation.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Five states permit it: Connecticut,Iowa,Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

The others are New Mexico, Pennsylvania,Rhode Island and Vermont.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Teter is twenty-three and comes from Belmont,Vermont.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

The idea of having to teach kids how to play outside leaves Anita Caldwell, a teacher at Calvary Preschool in Pittsford,Vermont,dumbfounded.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

The District of Columbia now joins five states -- Connecticut,Iowa,Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont -- with a law legalizing same sex marriage.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03