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Close up of a hand holding a fragment of orange pottery - the rim is visible decorated with carvings of three circles and a rim that looks like a castle.
Lexi Krupp
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Vermont Public
Pieces of stone tools and pottery were first discovered at Sand Bar State Park in 2022. For the past two years, water levels of Lake Champlain have been too high to further excavate.
Clockwise from left: A customer picks up their ice cream order at the UConn Dairy Bar in Storrs, Conn. (Raquel C. Zaldívar/New England News Collaborative) A trail leading deeper into the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge area, near the welcome center in Swanton, Vermont. (Sophie Stephens/Vermont Public) Portland Head Light Lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. (Tulley Hescock/Maine Public). A long line of tourists enters the Lobster Pot in Provincetown in 2022. (Jesse Costa/WBUR file photo)
Raquel C. Zaldívar/New England News Collaborative, Sophie Stephens/Vermont Public, Tulley Hescock/Maine Public, Jesse Costa/WBUR file photo
Our public media journalists explored fun things to do on day trips in the states that make up New England. Not a bad assignment.