For what feels like my entire adult life, all three decades or so of it, I've been getting the Vermont Country Store catalog. I can't remember exactly the first time I popped open my mailbox to ...

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. Those in search of a hard-to-find gift this season might try The Vermont Country Store. From old-fashioned candy to a copy of a Dick and ...

WESTON – In the historic family home just off the village green, brothers Cabot and Eliot Orton were preparing last Wednesday to cook from "The Vermont Country Store Cookbook." When they realized that ...

WESTON For 64 years, it's been a mailbox staple, offering home remedies, kitchen wares and long-forgotten brands in hopes of helping consumers solve life's little problems, from spider veins to ...

The funniest part of the Vermont Country Store catalog is the underwear. The women’s cotton briefs they sell reach from the belly button to the knee. I exaggerate, of course, but probably by less than ...

Mildred Ellen Orton, who along with her husband Vrest launched The Vermont Country Store catalog in 1945 and opened a retail outlet in 1946, died at her home in Weston, VT on May 6. She was 99.

WESTON, VT. >> For a true New England winter, envelope yourself in the honest warmth of simple Vermont charm with Grandma and Grandpa Orton and the rest of the Vermont Country Store family in the new ...

In the 1970s, a shampoo called Lemon Up made quite the zesty splash. Created by the Gillette company, it featured bright yellow packaging, a bumpy, realistic lemon-shaped cap, and promised a full ...