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Joe’s Pond Ice Out Contest
Every spring Central Vermonters flock to general stores to buy their tickets to the Joe’s Pond Ice Out Contest. If you can correctly guess when a flag will fall through the frozen pond, you’ll go down in the history books, and win a chunk of change.
Every spring, Central Vermonters flock to general stores to buy tickets to the Joe’s Pond Ice Out Contest. If they can correctly guess when a flag will fall through the frozen pond, they’ll go down in the history books, and win a decent chunk of change. Living on Earth’s Emmett FitzGerald reports from West Danville, Vermont.