Woodstock village green and Middle Bridge
— — the green at the centre of a small New England town.
Not only on a wall.
“An oval of grass ringed by Federal and Greek Revival houses, a white steeple at one end, and a covered bridge over the Ottauquechee a block away. The current Middle Bridge dates to 1969, rebuilt by New Hampshire bridgewright Milton Graton in town-lattice form. People walk the loop in the early evening, when the windows are just starting to light. from the studio
Woodstock village green and Middle Bridge, 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.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Woodstock sits along the Ottauquechee River in Windsor County, Vermont, about 14 miles west of White River Junction. The town was chartered in 1761 and grew into the county seat, with a population of roughly 3,000 today. The village green is an oval ringed by Federal and Greek Revival houses, with St James Episcopal and the Windsor County Courthouse facing in. A block south, the Middle Bridge carries Union Street over the Ottauquechee in town-lattice form, rebuilt in 1969 by bridgewright Milton Graton. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, the country's only national park focused on conservation history, sits just north of the green.
The Upper Valley peaks for foliage in the first two weeks of October, when sugar maples around the green turn through orange into a deep red. Cold nights and bright days drive the colour; the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources tracks the wave moving south through the state each year. Woodstock is one of the most photographed towns in New England in those weeks, and inns along Elm and Central fill months ahead. The green itself reads warmest in late afternoon, when the white clapboard catches the low sun and the steeple of the First Congregational Church holds the light a little longer than the trees.
The green is open ground, no fee, no hours. Parking is on-street along Elm and the Green; a public lot sits behind the Town Hall. The Middle Bridge is one of three covered spans in the village and is open to vehicles and walkers; the other two, Lincoln and Taftsville, are within a short drive east. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, just across the river, runs guided mansion tours from late May through October and keeps its carriage roads open year-round. Billings Farm, a working dairy and museum, sits at the park's edge and is the easiest place to take children.