Newspaper's fall foliage road trip cuts through Whiting...

...but doesn't mention us

Whiting has reason to feel a bit honored and a bit slighted by the Addison Independent's fall foliage road trips. Five trips were mapped out in the newspaper's special "Fall Foliage 2012" edition. The 3-hour trip cuts right through the center of Whiting, yet the newspaper did not mention the town's name. Also neglected in the same writeup were our neighbors to the north in the pretty town of Cornwall.

The road trip description begins as follows: "From Middlebury, take Route 30 south to Sudbury, [see, no mention of Cornwall or Whiting, just POOF you're in Sudbury] where you pick up Route 73 and travel west to Larrabee's Point on Lake Champlain. You may want to cruise the lake at Mount Independence leaving from Larrabee's Point, which is home to the Fort Ticonderoga ferry. Continue north on Route 7A passing through historic Shoreham..."

From there, the three-hour road trip heads north on Route 22A to Bridport, then west on Route 135 to Chimney Point, north and east on Route 17 to the West Addison General Store, north on Jersey Street along Lake Champlain nearly to Basin Harbor, east and south on Basin Harbor Road into Vergennes, south on Route 22A into Addison, back on Route 17 east and then Route 23 south back into Middlebury.

(By the way, the Independent recently ran an editorial describing the problems it has had with the printing of its late-week broadsheet edition. Those were apparently related to the switching of printing companies. One week, the newspaper was printed with large white margins at the top and bottom of the pages. The next week, the pages were noticeably shrunk, with some type becoming virtually unreadable.)