Northern Vermont lakefront writer's retreat

Description

Beautiful lakefront property including updated, midcentury 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom home with lakeview picture windows, Avalon Olympic wood stove & fieldstone fireplace, Rinnai propane heaters in each bedroom & open kitchen-dining-living space. Ideal for a writing sabbatical for an individual or family. Single-story with one-step entry. Stairs down to 100 feet of shoreline with large new dock & canoe, kayaks, etc. Greensboro has an extensive writers' history (Wallace Stegner wrote 'Crossing to Safety' and Alfred North Whitehead wrote 'Process and Reality' here, nearby). Local amenities include Highland Centre for the Arts, Hill Farmstead Brewery (voted best brewery in the world several years in a row), award-winning Jasper Hill Cheese, Highland Lodge, Barr Hill Nature Preserve, & other conserved land with public trails for hiking, cross-country skiing, etc. Bread & Puppet Theatre, Hardwick (which NY Times called "the town that food saved," w/ farmer's market, food coop, restaurants), Montpelier (smallest/cutest state capital) all within an easy drive; Québec's Eastern Townships just across the border. People who visit Vermont's 'Northeast Kingdom' often decide they want to move here. Half-way between Montreal (McGill U et al, 2.5 hrs away) & Boston (Harvard et al).