A Thought About New York and Vermont by Gary Hainsworth

As a man who grew up in the smallest county in New York state: Rockland County, I don't think I would mind living in an alternate reality where everything else was more or less the same except that Vermont remained part of New York instead of it's own thing. Same counties. Same everything including the maple syrup and teddy bears. Only one difference: the map in this alternate present-day 2014 would look about the same as it did in 1777 just so my beloved Rockland would no longer have to suffer the indignity of being the smallest county in New York state because in this alternate history that “honor” would be transferred to Grand Isle County (currently, Vermont's smallest county; however, in this alternative history it would be New York's smallest county). Granted, by only four square miles but wining by technicality is still a victory. However, I digress. 

© 2016 by Gary Hainsworth