From the column: "I’ll be alone with myself, wrapped in the solitude of the Shore. Except for the absence of snow and the ...

The Walsh House, featured in the “Beverly Hills 90210″ television series, survived. So did its pristine lawn. Next door, the remains of a neighbor’s home was blackened with soot.

There are, I can now admit as I look back to that summer morning, many more reasons not to run across Vermont than to do it.