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After a getaway in gorgeous rural Vermontits mountains ablaze in autumnal glory, its Main Streets quaint and welcomingEllen Stimson and her family make up their minds even before they get back to St. Louis: Were moving to Vermont! The reality, they quickly learn, is a little muddier than they'd imagined, but, happily, worth all the trouble.
In self-deprecating and hilarious fashion, Mud Season chronicles Stimsons transition from city life to rickety Vermont farmhouse. When she decides she wants to own and operate the old-fashioned village store in idyllic Dorset, pop. 2,036, one of the oldest continually operating country stores in the country, she learns the hard way that improvements are not always welcomed warmly by folks who like things just fine the way theyd always been. She dreams of patrons streaming in for fresh-made sandwiches and an old-timey candy counter, but she learns theyre boycotting the store. Why? The bread, they tell her, you moved the bread from where it used to be. Can the citified newcomer turn the tide of mistrust before she ruins the business altogether?Follow the author to her wits end and back, through her full immersion into rural lifeswapping high heels for muck boots; raising chickens and sheep; fighting off skunks, foxes, and bears; and making a few friends and allies in a tiny town steeped in history, local tradition, and that dyed-in-the-wool Vermont character.
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