Each Vermont country store carries its own particular stock of special
wares and memorable characters. From the Connecticut River to Lake
Champlain, country stores and their dedicated owners offer warmth
against the blizzard, advice and a friendly ear or a stern word.
Neighbors meet and communities are forged beside these feed barrels and
bottomless coffee urns. Author Dennis Bathory-Kitsz returns once again
to the Green Mountain State with this updated and revised history and
guide to its beloved country stores. When Hurricane Irene threatened
many of these local institutions and communities in 2011, Vermonters
came together, often at their country stores. Explore the very heart of
communities big and small, where locals have been keeping their house
keys behind the counter and solving the world's problems on the front
stoop for more than two hundred years.