A Stoddard Family Reunion at Pine Top

Peggy Farabaugh Stonehurst
Pine Top Hosts Stoddard Reunion
Jim and Betsy Stoddard are on the left. Don and Barbara Stoddard are in the middle and that’s Vernon’s beloved Town Historian, Barbara Moseley on the bottom right.

Pine Top, the lost ski area that’s now home to our Vermont furniture showroom, holds many memories for families that skied and stayed here during the 1940s, 50s and 60s.  We’ve been corresponding with the Stoddard family for a couple years now.  Don and his brothers Jim and Sandy have shared many of their happy memories with us and we’ve been hoping one day they would drop by for a visit.

The Stoddards, Barbara Moseley and me at Pine Top, October 2015
From right: Don Stoddard, Barbara Moseley, Jim Stoddard and me.

This week they did!  I was able to catch up with Barbara Moseley, Vernon’s Town Historian and invite her to join us.  Barbara worked at Pine Top when she was going to college.  She remembered the Stoddards fondly and was excited to get together and reminisce with them.

Map of Pine Top, created by Barbara Moseley
Here’s the Pine Top map Barbara created. This photo was taken earlier when Sigrid and Bill Wares of Moorestown, New Jersey stopped by to share their Pine Top memories.

We had a wonderful time chatting over apple cider and donuts & strolling along between Toby slope and Pelley Run.  Barbara brought over copies of the Pine Top map she recently created (from memory) and the Stoddards each took one home to enjoy.

If you have your own memories of Pine Top, stop by Vermont Woods Studios anytime and take a trip down memory lane.  It’s good for the soul.

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Peggy Farabaugh

She is a CEO who brakes for salamanders, has bottle-fed rescued squirrels and spent her vacation building furniture for a rural school in Costa Rica. She believes in the future and in the people who will build it. A former distance-learning professor at Tulane University with a master’s in environmental health & safety, she turned an interest in forest conservation and endangered species into a growing, local business. She delivers rainforest statistics at breakneck speed, but knows how to slow down and appreciate the beauty of a newly finished piece of heirloom furniture.

2 thoughts to “A Stoddard Family Reunion at Pine Top”

  2. Hi.
    Sally Magin sent me this. My sister Susan and I (Welzmiller) used to go to Pine Top with the Stoddards every Feb from the time I was 7 years old until we were finished with high school. Don ,Sandy and Jim’s father and my father (Paul Welzmiller) worked together on Wall Street.What great memories I have ! Jim always told us jokes with his cousin Jeff. Uncle Jimmy’s jokes we called them. Had great fun learning to ski on Pelley and then graduating to Toby. I think lift tickets were under $5.

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