Montpelier is great for the same reasons it can be terrible. This town is filled with weirdness and eccentricities in its people, places and things. Most days I love that there isn’t a chain store or corporate outlet within miles but other days I don’t necessarily feel like dealing with the goth mime-clown playing accordion outside the coffee shop. I hate that some great, creative ideas just seem to fail here due to lack of community support. For a city that goes out of its way to prevent a MacDonald’s, it hardly supports its local businesses either. For example, just before I officially moved here there was a spot called the Langdon Street Café. It was home to a café serving sandwiches and coffee, a nightly venue for local bands, and an impromptu puppet theatre. They sadly had to close their doors in May.
We recently got a new food truck called Nonno's that parks in a small plot of land on main street. i love it. the owner sets up a table and chairs with place settings and lanterns. tonight when i walked by he had about 30 paper lanterns everywhere. Fingers crossed we can keep him around.
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