Description
In self-deprecating and hilarious
fashion, Mud Season chronicles Stimson's 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 they'd always been. She
dreams of patrons streaming in for fresh-made sandwiches and an
old-timey candy counter, but she learns they're 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 wit's end and back, through her full immersion into rural life--swapping 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."