In the late 1940’s the building now known as Solar Hill acted as Vermont’s Governor’s mansion. World War II veteran Ernest Gibson Jr. was elected Vermont Governor in 1946 and his large family home set back from Western Avenue took on a new role.
In 1946, across an ocean 3700 miles away, Hugh Mulligan met Brigid Murphy outside a church in Frankfort, Germany. Mulligan was a recently discharged GI from Long Island and Murphy was a secretary from Armagh, Ireland working for General Eisenhower’s military command in the German city. Within two years all three veterans of World War II would be living together on Western Avenue. Here's the story...
