One of the things I love about Brattleboro is the sense of humanity and individuality that survives there. It is striking to walk around in a downtown where there are no box stores or franchise stores, you get the sense of being in a particular place, where small businesses and individual tastes and styles can survive, you don’t see the same things you see in almost every town and city in America now.

You also see people sitting out on the street and just talking and drinking coffee. Talking out on the street is a lost art, I saw it everywhere in Brattleboro. In New York City, every seems frantic to me, pressured and stressed. In Brattleboro, people remember what is really important: people.