April 17 & 18 Montpelier, VT and Black Sheep Books/The Langdon St. Café
Montpelier is the smallest capitol of any state. It is really small-town seeming. Apparently a guy who lives in Florida owns half the rental property in town. Including the building that black sheep books and the langdon st. cafe rent. He drives up the prices by letting empty storefronts stay empty and doubling people's rent over night.
Here are some thoughts:
The Langdon St. Café and the tempeh reuben and maple-sweetened lemonade. They really capitalize off of the whole maple syrup thing. Very tourism-based economy. Went to Hubbard park, a wild butte with a huge castle-like tower at the top in the middle of a clearing. I could see everything for miles in every direction. There are no skyscrapers in Montpelier.
We stayed with Melissa and Collin, two members of the Black Sheep Book Collective. They lived in a really nice, big townhouse about 20 minutes (walking) from downtown. The view from their balcony was amazing. We had to walk through a graveyard to get to downtown. When we were walking home last night we realized that we could see a million more stars than usual. Montpelier doesn’t seem to light its roads very much.
inside the cafe The screening was sponsored by Black Sheep Books but happened in the Langdon St. Café. The café is worker-owned and operated and vegetarian. They had really good (reasonably priced) food and drinks.
After our documentary there was another documentary called "Life in a Box" about three men who fall in love while living in an RV (and two of them are in this band called Y'all). It was pretty good.
New Hampshire summed up- birch trees and scrapbooking stores in ev
ery town.
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