There's a good chance of running into someone you know at the diner in the center of town.
On any given day, odds are I'll run into someone I know in the diner.
In 2011, Tropical Storm Irene decimated it (it hovers over a river), and the townspeople were beside themselves.
The New York Times even wrote an article about it titled, "In Vermont, a Town That Would Not Let Its Diner Go."
Although the diner belongs to Reagan (her co-owner and husband, John, died in 2017), as The New York Times put it, "everyone, it seems, has a claim."
Persons:
Gilmore, Lauren Harkawik Dot's, Irene, Patty Reagan, Reagan, John
Organizations:
New York Times
Locations:
Dot's, Vermont