For two days Calvin Coolidge and his wife traveled through Vermont, "up the east side, across and down the west side" of the Green Mountains. They saw how last year's flood destruction had been repaired. They stayed a night at Calvin Coolidge's 275-acre farm at Plymouth Notch. Housekeeper Aurora Pearce was ready for them with a fried chicken dinner and Presidential applesauce. Calvin Coolidge inspected his house from cellar to roof tree; also the barn, the hay rick, the new silo.
They laid White House roses on three graves-the President's parents' and...
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