Not the first cup mind you but the best cup. After all it’s one hundred and twenty miles north and I’ll need fuel to get me there. Brattlboro First Friday gallery walk. The annual In-Sight Photography Project silent Auction opens tonight. and runs throughout the month and I am honored to contribute to this excellent program. Click here if you are to far to get to this wonderful City and you can support/bid on line. In-Sight Photography Program,
There are 40 something stops on The Art Walk in Brattleboro Vt. One hundred and twenty miles north on the map yet light years away in the creative mind. Another small city another coffee metaphor for small business and the arts. Thanks to the two contributors so far to this discussion. Perhaps people do read my thoughts? Perhaps they will also comment. The dialog isn’t about Norwich Ct per say, I hope to hear opinions on small business, small towns, how they or do they fit in the plan for the big box American dream?
On a recent visit to Brattleboro while waiting to cross the street there was a car radio playing loud. Not uncommon in cities these day yet standing there listening to Judy Garland sing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” became a moment where I wished the walk light never came on. Off to fall colors and clean air and Mocha Joe’s enjoy pjc
Smell the Roses or the coffee beans, linger and talk.
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I’m afraid we will lose you to Brattleboro…which would not be a bad thing for either you or Brattleboro!
Perhaps I am already gone. pjc
It’s not just Brattleboro, it’s any small town/city that hasn’t succumbed to the corporate f**t f**d joints in their downtown gathering areas. Brattleboro has the f**t f**d places, but they are located far from the downtown, easily accessable to the hordes of leaf-peepers and trip-tic wavers who want to “experience” these beautiful sections of our country, as long as they don’t have to stray too far from the interstate (or their cars for that matter). These downtowns are disappearing rapidly to the plastic, logoed sameness of present day America. Brattleboro (and many other small cities/towns) has resisted the change admirably. Visit your local diner/coffee shop – have a cup or two and get to know some more interesting people than you might meet in the SUV/plastic/McFried world.
….and here we are again in 2017 and r.j.phils’s words ring truer than ever….it is any small town…the “quaintness” that you know everyone…that warm fuzzy feeling when you walk into a place and you’re home! the sights, the smells, the looks, the voices…the calm…almost gone is the joy, the pleasure, the comfort of all these places that so many have never experienced……I’m glad I did….. love this image pjc………
My morning coffee will not be in Brattleboro again. Sad but I have been there and maybe in spring I will be there again here in Olympia, Burial Grounds, Batdorfs, etc coffee out here is big. I need dry weather and warm air to get out early. Mocha Joes. peace pjc