Julia Alvarez on Weybridge, Vermont | Smithsonian.com

Other towns get more attentions says the renown novelist, but this is a place where things get done

By Julia Alvarez, Middlebury College writer in residence
Smithsonian Magazine, November 2008

You’ve heard of towns like ours. The kind of place about which city folks say, “Don’t blink or you’ll miss it!”

You might as well go ahead and blink, because you are going to miss it. There’s no real town center in Weybridge, Vermont, unlike our postcard-pretty neighbor Middlebury. No quaint town green surrounded by shops full of trinkets to clutter up your house and a sweet little gazebo to make you dewy-eyed for the olden days.

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