Apparently it was the town meeting in Stowe, various selectmen returned to the tiny restaurant at the 3 way stop sign in Stowe. The meetings agenda how to ensure the relevancy of the main Street with all the millions spent up at the base of the mountain. The access road has so much of the shopping and the nightlife. I’ve heard these debates all over the eastern Seaboard. Everybody talks about how much they love the small town centers, but then won’t go there because lack of parking or whatever…I dined at the bar, among my new dining companions, 4th generation “Stowers” ( if there is such a thing) said they’d heard it all before!
We talked about the key event of the winter the upcoming Stowe Derby Feb 22nd 2009. I’m ready. His advice, “don’t get overtaken by any girls”
We covered the essential reasons why I was here. AIG, business, Prozac, girls. This of course now became a mantra for my new found acquaintances. “ Do you know anybody who takes prozac?” …the interesting response, “No. Do you want some?” Ummm….
The group of characters included various selectman, the sock salesman, the dutch guy, the town high school history teacher, and surprisingly, directly across the bar, one of his pupils, studying for the final test of the year, on the final day of the year. Is that possible? Is that legal? Can you make this up? She was with her family, but they were sitting at the bar.
Monday my first day in Stowe, and the evening was interesting. Temperature 12, friggn’ cold. Must figure out about this dry gas stuff for the gas tank on my trusty Saab!
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