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Sherlock Terry

Oct 8, 2026

27:24
Well, going back to the wool, how much of it stemmed from this influx of sheep in Vermont at one point, which people can still, again, if anybody hasn't been up to Woodstock and that whole environment, all of those environments, it's beautiful up there and you pass these gorgeous farms and these gorgeous landscapes and you will see sheep.
27:43
Yeah, and it's actually amazing.
27:44
The history of sheep in Vermont is really one of the defining characteristics of the Vermont landscape.
27:49
There was something called the Marino Mania, a little bit of a tongue twister there, in the 1830s and 1840s, where really most of Vermont, it was something like 75% to 90% was deforested to raise sheep.
28:05
And then the bottom fell out of that market due to a mix of tariffs and cheaper...
28:11
it was cheaper to produce wool in the West as well.
28:14
And so really Vermont has been pretty much reforested since then, but that legacy of a lot of the sheep still exists and there's a lot of small woolen mills.

6 MINS LATER

34:53
that's not really the case

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