Quick: Name a Vermonter who lives in New York City. Trey Anastasio splits his time these days between Richmond and the Upper West Side. And there's Jessica Sklar, a Burlington native who now lives in Manhattan as Mrs. Jerry Seinfeld.

But lots of other woodchucks are also making their marks on the Big Apple. While flatlanders have been ditching the city to raise goats and make cheese here since the 1960s, a younger generation of Vermonters is quietly traveling the opposite path. Call them rural transplants.... Read more