Picturesque Burlington - a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain (1894) (14586045827)

Identifier: picturesqueburli00auld (find matches)

Title: Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain

Year: 1894 (1890s)

Authors: Auld, Joseph, 1848-1921

Subjects: Burlington (Vt.) -- Description and travel

Publisher: Burlington, Vt. : Free Press Association

Contributing Library: New York Public Library

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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- .so eminent ateacher as Wm. II. Sherwood as a very attractive player anda genuine teacher of mu.sic, with real mu.sical talent and anexquisite touch. The Sherman Military Band has been at the head of the brassbands of the State for years, and has well earned the position. Itsleader is a fine musician, an author of .some notable band mu.sic.He keeps together and leads a fine company of musicians. The Howard Opera House Orchestra is an excellent stringband which furnishes music for dancing and entertainments.

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Converse School. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. THE OLD ACADE.VY; THE HIGH SCHOOL AXD THE GRADED SYSTEM; THECONVEESE SCHOOL ; BISHOP HOPKINS HALL ; VERMONT EPISCOPALINSTITUTE; THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS ANDTHE PRIVA TE SCHOOLS. Burlington is the center of culture and education of theChamplain valley and \erniont. Its attractions to the studentand the lover of literature and the arts are superior to nianv alarger town. The University of Vermont has brought to the com-munity a magnificent library and art gallery, and a corps oflearned professors ; the free library has .spread its cultivating influ-ence through the town ; the colleges, the summer school, the lit-erary and other organizations have given a general impulse to thecultivation of the humanities, and the city gives marked evidenceof the widespread results of the.se influences. The educational institutions of the Queen City are among theproudest possessions of its people. The)- have made Burlingtonknown far and wide as a home of culture, a

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