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Top 10 Awesome Things About Small Towns (the Red Falls, Vermont edition)
10. You meet lots of really interesting (um, quirky) people in small towns. Where else but a place like Red Falls would you find the C.E.O. of Alice's Creature Creations, known for her fine weavery of discarded pet hair into sweaters and hats for the rest of us?
9. You can actually see the stars. If you've ever lived in or near a city, you know that the stars aren't *always* visible on a clear night (and sometimes what city people think is a star turns out to be a plane or some light on the other end of the freeway). But in a small town like Red Falls, you can lay in the grass by the lake at night and treat your eyes to a dazzling celestial show, complete with shooting stars, constellations, satellites, and even planets.
8. Neighbors know stuff. Yeah, it can get annoying in a small town when everyone knows your business, but when you need to dig up some dirt on your family history, the nosey neighbor epidemic sure comes in handy -- just as Delilah Hannaford.
7. Small towns are great places to run a business, no fancy marketing and branding required. Just ask the Food Dynasty in Red Falls -- when the "d" and the "Dy" in their neon sign burned out years ago, rendering them the Foo Nasty, they didn't even have to fix it. Everyone in town knows it's the place where you get your groceries -- the name is just for decorative purposes.
6. People always show up with food in a small town. Lots of it. Whether there's a funeral, a wedding, or just a nice day for a picnic, small town people stroll up to events with potato salad, cookies, and enough foil-covered pans of buttery baked goodness to feed an army. As an outsider like Delilah, you might be judged and whispered about, but you won't be hungry.
5. In small towns, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Whenever things start to get a little too predictable, the tourist season ushers in a fresh supply of entertainment. And just when the overcrowding obnoxiousness gets to be too much, thank you! Come again! Time to go home! And things return to normal.
4. You can still get yourself a non-corporate cup of coffee in a small town. In fact, in some shops, you can even find the ingenious yet increasingly rare *coffee* flavored coffee! Bonus: in Luna's cafe in Red Falls, you can catch a live acoustic show with the adorably sexy Patrick! Soulful guys who sing in coffee shops? Um, I'll take a triple extra hot with whip venti of that, please!
3. Flannel and flip-flops: not a last resort, but a way of life in a small town!'Nuff said!
2. No garage sale item is too old or too weird to close the deal. From an umbrella stand shaped like a fish to a complete set of 1978 Encyclopedia Brittanicas, one woman's junk is always another woman's treasure in small town USA.
And the number one most awesome thing about small towns...
1. The festivals. Whether it's maple season, corn season, apple season, the Fourth of July, or just a nice sunny day, there's always a reason to celebrate publicly with rides, games, and fried food on a stick. Mmm-mmm good!
If you live in a small town like Red Falls, home to generations of Hannafords in the book Fixing Delilah, then you know what I'm talking about, right? But if you're a city slicker and you're looking for a glimpse at small town life, I hope you'll check out the book to see exactly what Delilah's up against this summer!
Thanks for reading!
xo
Sarah
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Thank you Sarah for that great list. I come from a small town and I can relate to many of those awesome things!
Also, I am excited to be able to give away a copy of either Fixing Delilah or Twenty Boy Summer, both by Sarah Ockler. Good luck!
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Also, I am excited to be able to give away a copy of either Fixing Delilah or Twenty Boy Summer, both by Sarah Ockler. Good luck!
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