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32-532: In Royal Coachman – The Lore and Legends of Fly-Fishing (1999) Paul Schullery describes the Royal Coachman: No fly better represents this freewheeling era [late 19th century] in fly tying than the Royal Coachman, which among the general public may be the world's best-known fly. Its name has the right combination of romance and class to appeal even to people who don't fish, and

64-851: A dry fly, wet fly or streamer the white wing can be made with white duck quill, bucktail, calf tail, hen neck, hackle points or other white material. Tailing has varied over the years from the original wood duck flank to include golden pheasant tippet, brown or red hackle, moose, elk and deer hair. There are many variations on the original Royal Coachman. Typically dry fly variations are tied on hook sizes 10–16, wet fly versions on hook sizes 8–14 and streamer versions on hook sizes 1 to 8. Commonly named variations include: Favorite Flies and Their Histories Favorite Flies and Their Histories - With many replies from practical anglers to inquiries concerning how, when and where to use them-Illustrated by Thirty-two colored plates of flies, six engravings of natural insects and eight reproductions of photographs

96-475: A one-hour drive. VTrans and NYSDOT have shown interest in restoring passenger train service to Manchester on a new Amtrak route between Albany and Burlington via Rutland, also linking up nearby Mechanicville, New York and North Bennington, Vermont . The new train would share much of its route with the Ethan Allen Express , likely running beyond Albany to New York City . As of 2021,

128-553: A practical treatise on fly classification WHEN Mary Orvis Marbury died in 1914, the English Fishing Gazette acclaimed her as the most famous but one female angling author. (The other was Dame Juliana Berners, an Englishwoman who wrote A Treatyse of Fysshying Wyth an Angle in 1496.) Marbury's Favorite Flies and Their Histories, which became a best seller among anglers after it appeared in 1892 and went through nine printings by 1896, has recently been reprinted by

160-857: A yellow silk body, since then was widely known as the Professor Professor. - A prime favorite; use it on almost all casts when I see more than one fly. When using a black tail fly, I use a brown fly and a Professor for droppers; find it a good fly under general conditions, when using a Miller for tail fly; then use Professor for droppers. From a letter from W. David Tomlin ("Norman") Duluth, Minn as favorite flies for trout in Michigan streams . Favorite Flies contains plates and stories for Bass Flies, Trout Flies, Hackles, Salmon Flies, and Lake Flies The legacy of Mary Marbury, through her book and her leadership in Orvis's commercial fly-tying operation,

192-525: Is a fly fishing book written by Mary Orvis Marbury published in Boston in April 1892 by Houghton Mifflin . It was considered by most fly fishers as the standard reference on flies in its era. Favorite Flies is a unique volume that compiles the stories and images of popular American artificial flies of the late 19th century. It is one of the earliest works to use chromolithography color plates. Today,

224-507: Is a fly intended to be a Coachman, yet it is not the true Coachman; it is quite unlike it, and what can you call it?" Mr. L. C. Orvis, brother of Mr. Charles Orvis, who was present, said: "Oh, that is easy enough; call it the Royal Coachman, it is so finely dressed!" And this name in time came to be known and used by all who are familiar with the fly. The Royal Coachman pattern is one of the very few patterns that appeared in Marbury's work that

256-603: Is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km ), or 0.29%, is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 4,180 people, 1,819 households, and 1,156 families residing in the town. The population density was 99.0 people per square mile (38.2 people/km ). There were 2,456 housing units at an average density of 58.2 units per square mile (22.5 units/km ). The racial makeup of the town was 97.87% White , 0.38% Black or African American , 0.17% Native American , 0.31% Asian , 0.43% from other races , and 0.84% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.75% of

288-441: Is on the summit of Equinox Mountain , from which their callsign derives, enabling their signal to reach the northern and eastern Capital Region of New York's radio market area, while also being able to reach the remainder of southern Vermont , western Massachusetts , and southwestern New Hampshire . In November and December 2020, John Gray's novel, Manchester Christmas , became a local and regional bestseller. WVNK 91.1 FM,

320-478: Is still being tied and fished today in some form or another. The Royal Coachman and its derivatives are considered attractor patterns, or as Dave Hughes in Trout Flies ;– The Tier's Reference (1999) calls them – searching patterns – as they do not resemble any specific insect or baitfish. Early in the 20th century, Theodore Gordon once was of the opinion that

352-459: Is the standardization of American fly patterns. Her book Favorite Flies and Their Histories , remains one of the most significant landmarks in American fly tying literature. Mary Orvis Marbury, daughter of Charles F. Orvis, produced Favorite Flies and their Histories in 1892. While it may not complete favorably with later works on entomology, it certainly is unique for its time. It included

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384-511: The railroad from industrialized centers like New York City brought tourists, drawn by Manchester's historic architecture and beautiful setting among mountains. Following the Civil War , the town developed into an affluent resort area, which it remains today. Between 1812 and 1819, Manchester was made famous by the Boorn–Colvin case, called "America's first wrongful conviction murder case",

416-496: The Orvis company's fly tying department and she was inspired to set pen to paper when she realised how little standardization there was among fly patterns... The answers were compiled and key to colour plates in a book which was still in print sixty years later, such was its popularity From Antiquarian Book Exchange: Manchester, Vermont Manchester is a town in, and one of two shire towns ( county seats ) of, Bennington County, Vermont , United States. The population

448-399: The Royal Coachman resembled some form of flying ant, while in the 1950s, Preston Jennings, a noted fly tier and angler thought the Royal Coachman resembled Isonychia mayflies . The distinguishing features of any Royal Coachman or its derivatives are the peacock herl body partitioned with red silk or floss, a white wing and brown or red-brown hackle. Depending on whether the fly is tied as

480-493: The Wellfleet Press. Mary Orvis Marbury produced one of American fishing literature's milestone volumes, Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), which not only served generations as the bible of fly patterns but further strengthened the company's reputation for expertise and reliability ...the book which captured the American wet-fly tradition at its peak was Charles' [Orvis] daughter's Favorite Flies . Mary ran

512-522: The arts. The permanent collection at SVAC includes the work of such regional artists as Ogden Pleissner, Jay Hall Conaway, Reginald Marsh, Guy Pene du Bois, Lorenzo Hatch , Luigi Lucioni, Arthur Gibbs Burton, and Robert Strong Woodward. Like the rest of Bennington County, Manchester lies in the Albany–Schenectady–Troy television and radio media market. Manchester is home to alternative rock radio station WEQX 's studios. Their broadcast tower

544-502: The fly has such a commanding appearance that few fly fisherman can resist having some permutation of the pattern in their fly boxes, even if they never use it. Most of them don't know it, but the Royal Coachman is the first great American fly pattern... The Royal Coachman was first tied as a traditional winged wet fly and is a derivative of the Coachman wet fly. Mary Orvis Marbury in her Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) tells

576-662: The highest summit in the Taconics, with an elevation of 3,850 feet (1,170 m), is in the western part of the town. Manchester is drained by the Batten Kill , Lye Brook, Munson Brook, Bromley Brook, and Bourn Brook. The Lye Brook Falls Hiking Trail, which leads to one of the highest waterfalls in Vermont, is a popular local attraction. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 42.2 square miles (109.4 km ), of which 42.1 square miles (109.1 km )

608-566: The idea is listed simply as a "potential initiative" in the Vermont Rail Plan. Hildene, the summer home of Robert Todd Lincoln and Mary Lincoln, is a mansion in the Georgian Revival style completed in 1905 that is located southwest of Manchester Center. Robert Lincoln, the only child of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln to survive into adulthood, served as Secretary of War to Presidents Garfield and Arthur,

640-437: The middle, to prevent the peacock bodies from fraying out. I have also added a tail of the barred feathers of the wood-duck, and I think it makes a very handsome fly." A few evenings later, a circle of us were together "disputing the fly question," one of the party claiming that numbers were "quite as suitable to designate the flies as so many nonsensical names." The others did not agree with him, but he said: "What can you do? Here

672-402: The much-loved Professor John Wilson (Christopher North), and the story of the fly is, that one time, when this famous angler Was fishing, he ran short of flies, and, to create something of a flylike appearance, he fastened the petals of buttercups on his hook, adding bits of leaves or grass to imitate the wings of a fly. This arrangement was so successful that it led to the making of the fly with

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704-585: The original flies used to create the color plates are preserved in the American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester, Vermont . The stories for each fly described in the volume were obtained through correspondence with fly fisherman and fly tiers throughout the U.S. and Canada. The following is a typical story about the Professor , a popular wet-fly of time: No. 192. The Professor was named after

736-404: The population. There were 1,819 households, out of which 28.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.5% were married couples who were living together, 9.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.4% were non-families. Of all households 30.5% were made up of individuals, and 14.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size

768-470: The story of its creation as follows: The Royal Coachman was first made in 1878 by John Haily, a professional fly-dresser living in New York City. In writing of other matters, he inclosed [ sic ] a sample of this fly for us to see, saying: "A gentleman wanted me to tie some Coachmen for him to take up into the north woods, and to make them extra strong, so I have tied them with a little band of silk in

800-669: The subject of several books and still studied today. Orvis is a family-owned retail and mail-order business specializing in high-end fly fishing , hunting and sporting goods. Founded in Manchester in 1856 by Charles F. Orvis to sell fishing tackle, it is the oldest mail-order retailer in the United States. Jake Burton Carpenter , founder of Burton Snowboards , perfected snowboard design in his garage in Manchester. The company operated out of Manchester until 1992, when it relocated to Burlington . Nearby Stratton Mountain

832-599: The town was $ 47,196, and the median income for a family was $ 59,191. Males had a median income of $ 36,453 versus $ 26,017 for females. The per capita income for the town was $ 30,499. About 2.2% of families and 4.6% of the population were below the poverty line , including 1.9% of those under age 18 and 6.5% of those age 65 or over. Manchester is crossed by four highways, including one Super-2 freeway. They are: Green Mountain Community Network 's Orange Line bus and MVRTD "The Bus" Manchester-Rutland Connector serve

864-648: The town with public transit commuter connections to Bennington and Rutland , respectively. The closest major airport is Albany International Airport in New York, although three daily round trip flights from Rutland to Boston are available via Cape Air from Rutland – Southern Vermont Regional Airport . Greyhound , the national intercity bus system, also serves Manchester through Premier Coach's Vermont Translines with an intercity bus connection between Burlington, Vermont and Albany, New York . Manchester has several Amtrak passenger train connections within

896-412: Was 2.26 and the average family size was 2.81. The population distribution by age for Manchester was 23.1% under the age of 18, 4.0% from 18 to 24, 25.0% from 25 to 44, 28.8% from 45 to 64, and 19.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.3 males. The median income for a household in

928-488: Was 4,484 at the 2020 census . Manchester Village , an incorporated village, and Manchester Center , are settlement centers within the town. Manchester has become a tourist destination, especially for those from New York and Connecticut , offering visitors factory outlet stores of national chain retailers as well as many locally owned businesses and restaurants. The town was one of several chartered in 1761 by Benning Wentworth , colonial governor of New Hampshire . It

960-645: Was among the first ski resorts to allow snowboarding. The town has three distinct state-recognized historic districts—the Depot district located on Highland Avenue and Elm Street, Bonnet Street, just north of Main Street, and Main Street itself. Manchester is located in north-central Bennington County, lying between the Green Mountains to the east and the Taconic Range to the west. Equinox Mountain ,

992-775: Was appointed Minister (Ambassador) to Great Britain during the administration of President Benjamin Harrison, and later became general counsel and then president of the Pullman Company. The Hildene house and surrounding grounds are open to the public. Also located in Manchester, at the base of Mount Equinox, is the Southern Vermont Arts Center (SVAC). In addition to hosting art exhibitions from its permanent collections and of visiting collections in its gallery facilities, SVAC conducts educational programs and provides facilities for performances and events in

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1024-517: Was his custom to name new towns after prominent English aristocrats of the day, hoping they might adopt a patronly interest in their namesakes. Wentworth named Manchester for Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester . First settled in 1764, the town was laid out in 1784. The land was better suited for grazing than tillage , so by 1839 about 6,000 sheep roamed the pastures and hillsides. Other industries came to include iron mines , marble quarries and mills, and lumber companies. The arrival of

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