click to enlarge Jon Olender Owners Lynn (in pink) and Walt Manney (far right) with Jones' Donuts staff In 1923, the year that Calvin Coolidge became the second Vermonter to serve as U.S. president, Florence and Richard Jones started selling doughnuts on Terrill Street in Rutland. They distributed puffy circles of fried dough and other sweets on a quiet street in the bustling city then known as the marble capital of the country for its vast quarries. Today, the marble industry has faded, but is still going strong, having weathered the Great Depression (and Recession), World War II, the Rutland flood of 1947, and a global pandemic.

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