Carol M. Highsmith

Vermont also known as “the granite state" had many eastern european artisans responsible for creating unusual tombstones

Carol Highsmith has donated her life's photography work of tens of thousands of images to the Library of Congress during her decades-long career.  The photography collection at the Library is the most historic photographic collection on earth and includes the work of Dorothea Lange and Frances Benjamin Johnston.  Highsmith has been doing a visual study of America for 40 years and travels the United States for about 10 months a year.

Vermont

Vermont Capitol, Montpelier

An old carriage house on the grounds of the Park-McCullough House, Bennington, Vermont

Old mill in North Bennington, Vermont

"Champ" monster figure of Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont

Two performers in puppet masks from the Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, Vermont

Characters from the Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover, Vermont

This llama shares its farmland home with a number of goats near the town of South Hero, Vermont

A onetime fancy round barn, now a hostel, the Inn at the Round Barn, near Waitsfield, Vermont

Old barn with a built-in drive-through passageway near Middlebury, Vermont

View of rocky Otter Creek between Weybridge and Middlebury, Vermont

Harbor near Charlotte, Vermont

Large, distant barn near Charlotte, Vermont

Bears lined up at the Vermont Teddy Bear Company factory in Shelburne, Vermont

Barn with two silos near Fairfax, Vermont

The Euclide Quesil "dairy cow barn" outside Middlebury, Vermont

Middlebury Falls, a waterfall on the Otter Creek in the heart of downtown Middlebury, Vermont

Large barn on the grounds of the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont

Array of pumpkins and other fall specialties at Hudak's produce farm near St. Albans, Vermont

Memorial statue to Samuel de Champlain on Isle La Motte, Vermont

Animal-crossing sign for tortoises, South Hero, Vermont

Granite tombstone of race car  at the Hope Cemetery, Barre, Vermont

Airplane granite tombstone at the Hope Cemetery, Barre, Vermont

A proudly transgender man, Kristopher Corey Markus, St. Johnsbury, Vermont

Dalmatian figure in the grass outside the Dog Chapel, St. Johnsbury, Vermont

Dog-themed stained-glass window in the dog chapel, St. Johnsbury, Vermont

Hundreds of messages from dog lovers are tacked to the walls at the Dog Chapel, St. Johnsbury

Historic barn at the Samuel Gilbert Smith Farmstead in West Brattleboro, Vermont

The Creamery Covered Bridge in West Brattleboro, Vermon

Farmer collects maple syrup from one of his thousands of trees, Vermont

Chair granite tombstone at the Hope Cemetery, Barre, Vermont