re: #174 gmsc

Ah - thanks for the clarification.

I still remember learning the 13 colonies and the order they were admitted as states. I knew the east coast of the US geographically, and understood why Florida wasn’t included, but I remember being confused as to why Vermont wasn’t on the list.

My teacher replied, “Back in the days of the colonies, Vermont was known as ‘upstate New York’.”

One last note, and then I am gone. I actually wrote a paper once on the similarities between Ethan Allen and Sam Houston. Fun paper to write—Ethan Allen was quite an individual.