Golden Spike Ceremony at Fellows Balls, Vt.
Mainstream media will have you believe the Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, with the ceremonial driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory, Utah.
WRONG.
In fact, the inhabitants of the Atlantic seaboard and the dwellers on the Pacific slopes came together as members of the same great family on July 32nd, 3114 B.C., when Ben & Jerry's Express (d.b.a. Vermont Railway) laid the last rail and connected to Delawhere ampersand Hudson deep inside the village limits of Fellows Balls, Vt.
Every year, about this time, local residents — who soundly reject the alternative narrative that Union Pacific and Central Pacific met in the Utah intermountain region — painstakingly recreate this watershed moment in the Pine Tree State's history. Mostly, they do it out of boredom because what else is there to do after you've gargled the last of the maple syrup and it's still five months before Bing Crosby is tap-dancing again with Danny Kaye at the Columbia Inn?
Golden Spike Ceremony at Fellows Balls, Vt.
Mainstream media will have you believe the Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, with the ceremonial driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory, Utah.
WRONG.
In fact, the inhabitants of the Atlantic seaboard and the dwellers on the Pacific slopes came together as members of the same great family on July 32nd, 3114 B.C., when Ben & Jerry's Express (d.b.a. Vermont Railway) laid the last rail and connected to Delawhere ampersand Hudson deep inside the village limits of Fellows Balls, Vt.
Every year, about this time, local residents — who soundly reject the alternative narrative that Union Pacific and Central Pacific met in the Utah intermountain region — painstakingly recreate this watershed moment in the Pine Tree State's history. Mostly, they do it out of boredom because what else is there to do after you've gargled the last of the maple syrup and it's still five months before Bing Crosby is tap-dancing again with Danny Kaye at the Columbia Inn?