From Vermont-St. John’s Church in East Poultney is reopening its doors for the summer for the first time in 83 years. Since closing in 1931, the church has opened only once a year for an annual service. Now, the community is pulling together to reopen, and hopefully save, the historic building.
St. John’s has “no heat or electricity, except through its charm,” said Ida Mae Johnson, historian and chairwoman of St. John’s Executive Committee. “We haven’t renovated,” Johnson said of the nearly 200-year-old building.
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