“You’re going to need to figure something out,” Kiera Lewis told her husband, Cory Bratton, over a phone call in early March. “It’s going to get bad.” She was referring to what was about to become the COVID-19 global pandemic and Cory’s newly renovated local Vermont restaurant, A Vermont Table.

“This was our zombie apocalypse house,” said Justin Will, gesturing to the two-story open floor plan home where he and his wife, Elise Willer, have unexpectedly spent the past six months.

Jonathan Brathwaite and his wife Becky Alford started coming to Vermont each summer through a home swap program nine years ago.

Almost twenty years ago, Jean and Jack Sharry’s son went to summer camp in Vermont.

Eliza Fitzhugh and her husband Andres Gutierrez already had a lot on their minds when the pandemic shut down New York City in mid-March.