For what feels like my entire adult life, all three decades or so of it, I've been getting the Vermont Country Store catalog. I can't remember exactly the first time I popped open my mailbox to ...

I’M CURRENTLY quarantined with my mother in the stout brick house where I grew up, in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. Have you seen the movie “Grey Gardens”? Then you more or less get the picture. I’m ...

WESTON For 64 years, it's been a mailbox staple, offering home remedies, kitchen wares and long-forgotten brands in hopes of helping consumers solve life's little problems, from spider veins to ...

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. Those in search of a hard-to-find gift this season might try The Vermont Country Store. From old-fashioned candy to a copy of a Dick and ...

The Vermont Country Store catalog is a walk through the past, a time when maple syrup graced every breakfast table and a woman's daily wear was an apron. Many of the hard-to-find items that are still ...

The funniest part of the Vermont Country Store catalog is the underwear. The women’s cotton briefs they sell reach from the belly button to the knee. I exaggerate, of course, but probably by less than ...

Mildred Ellen Orton, who along with her husband Vrest launched The Vermont Country Store catalog in 1945 and opened a retail outlet in 1946, died at her home in Weston, VT on May 6. She was 99.