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“Imagination is more important than knowledge… knowledge is limited … imagination embraces the entire World.” “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”– Albert Einstein
“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” – Mohammed Ali
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” – Terry Pratchett
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus”. – Mark Twain.
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.”— John Dewey
Author’s Note – December 4, 2025
At the time of this writing I am an 86 year old former geology professor at the University of Vermont who long ago studied the deglacial history of Vermont. Despite my best efforts, back then I failed to unravel this history. But now, late in life, I have once again returned to this topic. To my surprise and delight this has has given me a much better understanding of what, when, where, and even how this story unfolded. This web site presents my findings, based primarily on my studies of publicly available online information taken from the the Vermont Center for Geographic Information website, limited recent field field work, a review of previously published reports, and my own, largely unpublished research in 1966 -1980. The result, as presented here, is a substantial, 400+ page document, essentially a book. It turns out that whereas I believe I have finally solved the mystery of Vermont’s “Ice Ages,” at least to satisfy my own personal curiosity, this is a complex story which I liken to a three dimensional puzzle, with missing puzzle pieces, and with gradational and overlapping spatial and temporal relationships. Thus, for me to think this through, and then to write this story has been both fun and challenging, and even now for me is not an easy read. A simple PDF copy can be provided upon request using the following email address: vermonticeman@gmail.com
W.Philip Wagner – Shelburne, Vermont October 22, 202