Take a trip down the Manchester Dorset and Granville Rail Line from the oldest marble quarry in the USA to the New York City Public Library. Moving the marble from the Norcross West Quarry down to the finishing mill in Manchester required the creation of a rail line – which we today know as the Manchester Rail Trail.

David Quesnel was born in Middlebury VT a long time ago. He grew up on a dirt road and attended a one room schoolhouse. David has never not lived in Vermont and as typical of native Vermonters, he has performed a variety of occupations including baking, bartending, and building to mention a few. He has hiked the length of Vermont on the Long Trail, he has also biked the length of Vermont a couple of times and he has peddled a bicycle to all 251 towns in Vt. He has written 3 books about his adventures in Vermont through his GrandPaws Memoirs series, Growing Up On A Dirt Road, Short Stories From The Long Trail and Tour de Vermont 251. He has now entered his 8th decade in Vermont he has no intentions of leaving.