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    The play follows Aurora, an idealistic college student, and Blair, a more pragmatic friend, on a tour of Vermont led by a tour guide. The tour guide paints an unromantic picture of trying to make a living in Vermont, describing the difficulties of maple syrup production and goat farming. While Aurora dreams of escaping city life for a rural idyll, the tour guide highlights the challenges of Vermont's long winters, swarms of bugs in warmer months, and how most make a living through tourism instead of agriculture. By the end, even Aurora concedes that the "rat race" of city life seems more appealing than struggling to eke out a living in Vermont's harsh climate and saturated farm markets.

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    The play follows Aurora, an idealistic college student, and Blair, a more pragmatic friend, on a tour of Vermont led by a tour guide. The tour guide paints an unromantic picture of trying to make a living in Vermont, describing the difficulties of maple syrup production and goat farming. While Aurora dreams of escaping city life for a rural idyll, the tour guide highlights the challenges of Vermont's long winters, swarms of bugs in warmer months, and how most make a living through tourism instead of agriculture. By the end, even Aurora concedes that the "rat race" of city life seems more appealing than struggling to eke out a living in Vermont's harsh climate and saturated farm markets.

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    The States Collection - Vermont - Free - 1f 2 M or F

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    The play follows Aurora, an idealistic college student, and Blair, a more pragmatic friend, on a tour of Vermont led by a tour guide. The tour guide paints an unromantic picture of trying to make a living in Vermont, describing the difficulties of maple syrup production and goat farming. While Aurora dreams of escaping city life for a rural idyll, the tour guide highlights the challenges of Vermont's long winters, swarms of bugs in warmer months, and how most make a living through tourism instead of agriculture. By the end, even Aurora concedes that the "rat race" of city life seems more appealing than struggling to eke out a living in Vermont's harsh climate and saturated farm markets.

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    The States Collection – Vermont


    One With Nature
    By Claudia I. Haas
    Claudiahaas12@gmail.com
    www.claudiahaas.com

    CAST:
    Aurora (female) 20; dreamy-eyed college student
    Blair (male or female) 20; pragmatic college student
    Tour Guide (male or female) 18 or older; ill-suited to the job

    Synopsis: The Tour Guide is welcoming people. Maybe. Tour Guide should be off to the side
    making pronouncements.

    TOUR GUIDE
    The damage from the industrial revolution has long been repaired. Rivers flow freely. The forests
    have returned. Because of slow growth, it is one of the few states where you can live peacefully,
    have a beautiful view and become one with nature.

    AURORA
    We really should move here. We need to get out of the rat race.

    BLAIR
    We’re not in the rat race. We’re still in college. Life will never be easier.

    AURORA
    We could stop adding debt to our adult life. We can – you know – buy up some maple trees and
    make maple syrup. How hard is that?

    TOUR GUIDE
    It takes forty gallon of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup.

    BLAIR
    You’re going to need a lot of trees.

    AURORA
    We can do it! This state is lousy with maple trees.

    TOUR GUIDE
    There are almost 2,000 sugar houses in Vermont already. It’s an ideal occupation of you love
    competition. Nail-biting, cut-throat competition. Deadly competition. All for a dollop of syrups
    on your pancakes.

    AURORA
    There’s always goat farming. I love goat cheese.
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    BLAIR
    How are you going to run a goat farm? You can’t get up for an 8 a.m. class?

    TOUR GUIDE
    A dairy goat farmer can make around $22 per goat per day.. If we take a lactating average of 284
    days, a goat farmer can earn $6248 a year. The average price of a small farm is $460,000.

    BLAIR
    I have to hand it to you. You have a knack for picking out poverty-based occupations.

    AURORA
    But I love it here!

    TOUR GUIDE
    By late May, Vermont’s weather is perfect. One can enjoy an idyllic al fresco dinner by
    Memorial Day. You will be one with nature.

    AURORA
    I want to be one with nature!

    TOUR GUIDE
    The biting flies return in June. They stick around until the mosquitoes come out. The mosquitoes
    will show you vampire-love until the first frost.

    BLAIR
    You hate mosquitoes.

    AURORA
    I know!

    TOUR GUIDE
    After the first frost, you may again dine outside without bugs. Unless there is an ice-storm. Or a
    snow-storm. Or a blizzard.

    BLAIR
    Those goats will still need to be milked!

    TOUR GUIDE
    Mountain roads are impassable. Of course if you can afford a ski lift pass, you will enjoy winter
    which lasts about eight months. Out of the year, there are fourteen days in which you will enjoy
    our pristine rivers and lakes. Which may account for our slow population growth.

    AURORA
    The rat-race is looking more inviting.
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    BLAIR
    Vermont will always be here. For vacations. You can tour dairy farms and sugar houses.

    AURORA
    And be one with nature!

    TOUR GUIDE
    Fourteen days of the year!

    END OF PLAY

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