One thing I have learned over the years is that your impressions of a place are necessarily, and often unshakably, colored by the route you take into it.
I’m not sure this is true in all cases but I can think of one Vermont village that bears this out. Morgan Center is a charming little hamlet on Lake Seymour, the largest lake totally within the state. It rests just a few miles from Canada; it’s summer population may reach two hundred, about twice the winter total.
If one comes into Morgan Center from the east, away from Island Pond, MC seems like just another tiny Vermont town, with one church, a lodge, and little else.
But if you approach it from the west, you do so driving down a steep incline with the lake and town on your right. From that high vantage point, MC looks to be a New England paradise. And it looks even better at night, with the lights from the houses on Seymour’s shore reflecting off the water like a mirror. Oh, what a sight.
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