Hartland Three Corner village
— — a quiet bend in the Connecticut River valley.
Not only on a wall.
“A small crossroads village in the town of Hartland, in eastern Vermont, where US Route 5 meets Vermont Route 12 a few miles back from the Connecticut River. White clapboard houses, a brick general store, a church steeple holding the skyline. The village is one of several in the town of Hartland, the others being Hartland Four Corners and North Hartland. Quiet in any season, and especially so when the snow comes in off the river. — from the studio
Hartland Three Corner village, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Hartland is a town in Windsor County in east-central Vermont, with a population of roughly 3,400 spread across several distinct villages. Hartland Three Corners is the village cluster at the junction of US Route 5 and Vermont Route 12, set back a short distance from the Connecticut River, which forms Vermont's border with New Hampshire here. The town was chartered in 1761 as one of the New Hampshire Grants. Nearby, the Quechee Gorge and Woodstock anchor the surrounding upper Connecticut River valley.
Hartland is one of the genuinely quiet corners of Windsor County. The traffic on US 5 thins north of White River Junction, and the village itself is small enough that an early morning walk meets more wood smoke than cars. The Connecticut River runs below the village to the east. Sound here is local: a screen door, a chainsaw a ridge away, the cold rumble of a plough truck in February. It is the kind of stillness that holds a New England village together.
Hartland sits low enough in the Connecticut River valley that snow arrives a little later than in the high Greens to the west, but it holds the colour longer in autumn. Peak foliage in Windsor County typically falls in the first ten days of October. In winter, the white clapboard houses and the church steeple read against snow and slate-grey sky. The Vermont Department of Tourism's foliage tracker is the working reference for timing a visit.