The coolest small towns in the U.S.A.
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, April, 2006
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What makes a small town cool? It's hard to pin down, but there's usually a friendly bookstore, and old buildings that have been repurposed in clever ways-a deconsecrated church, for instance, that's now a café. (A good cup of coffee is essential.) But ultimately, it comes down to the people. Vermont, Barnard It'd be easy to breeze through Barnard-before you know it, you've passed right by the general store and post office and left town limits.
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But it's worth stopping awhile. Barnard, just northwest of White River Junction in central Vermont, has a remarkably rich food scene. Will Dodson and Ruth Schimmelpfennig, two San Francisco-based chefs, took over the Barnard Inn Restaurant in 2000. "Sonoma and Napa Valley were way out of our price range," says Dodson. They found the Inn listed in The New York Times. "We came out, toured the area, and fell in love with it," says ...
