Connecting Vermont's Past, Present, and Future STORY BY STEPHEN PIERCE PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN PATERSON I’m standing in a high-ceilinged, reconstructed timber barn in Middletown Springs, VT with owners Luke and Sarah Larson, staring up at its massive ceiling beams, many of which were hewed from trees that first grew in the early 1600s, nearly two hundred years before our country became a nation. The darkened cuts made by axes swung by early American farmers are still visible, and if I let my...