“Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.”
— Henry Ford
Dummerston: Today and Tomorrow (Saturday AM)
Today
Lots of trees
Friendly at Post Office
Helpful
Soggy!
Welcoming
Hidden gems
Growing
Bedroom community
Full of talent
70 mph
Very hilly
Primarily white, some mixed races
Wildlife
Orchards and veggies
Apple pie
Old quarries
Decrease in children (population)
Two river valleys
Great Contra dancing
Town forest
Grange Hall
West River
Vast volunteer opportunities
Great orchard
Graveyard
Longest covered bridge in Vt.
Nuclear reactor town
Cows
Hiking trails
Green Mountain Camp for Girls
Congregational Church
Maple syrup
Two town centers
Stickney brook
Best view of NH
Firemen who make pancakes
10 minutes to Brattleboro
Great town newsletter
Historical society
Library
No dump
Recreational fields
Scott Farm
Movie set (Scott Farm)
Communication silos
Town with most contributions to Sturbridge Village
Spotted salamander
Like nothing else
Very safe
Great
Today, page 2
Community
Spread out
Heavily taxed
Peaceful
Rural
Independent
60 miles dirt roads
Difficult for the elderly in winter
Great schools
Suburban
Bears in the garbage
No general store
Best Grange suppers
No coffee shop
Three zip codes
Library
Lots of outdoor recreation
Closed ski area
Democracy
Getting old
Volunteer fire department
Prospect Hill
Select board – good energy
Limited access to the Internet
Lots of history
Not lots of new technology
Bad cell phone reception
Best organic farm around
Rudyard Kipling
Black Mountain
Artists and authors
Best piece of the Connecticut River
Lester’s donuts
Good neighbors
Very committed but rather self satisfying
Conservation interest
Community supported agriculture (CSA)
Top notch transfer station
Wonderful children
No exits off 91
Invasive plant series
Started Brattleboro
Future
Community potlucks
Senior housing
Shared equipment (maintenance & farming)
Fewer cars
Continued rural atmosphere
Youth and young families
No Putney Road
Neighborhood health program
West Dummerston dollars
Café at Dummerston Center
A sensible property assessment
Housing options for climate refugees
No litter
Square dances
Pair the youth & elderly
West River bike trail
Summer concerts
Large maple trees (living)
Tax on entry
Organic farms
No pollution
Town purchase ledges and make it into a public park
Availability of ice cream at the café
Centrally located library
Sister town overseas (Italy?)
Open ski/snowboard area
Seasonal socials
Skating rink
Community gardens with home garden clinics for residents
Strong healthy schools
Bus service to Brattleboro
Affordable school / no tax mandates
Home churches to talk issues
No traffic circles
No more mansions
60 miles of dirt roads
Maple Valley as a freestyle ski/snowboard resort
No interstate access / exit
Spiritual wellbeing
Fulflex Field support
No connecting link between Routes 5 and 30
Choir
Networking young professionals and business owners
Film club
Opportunities for town humor
Dummerston Cares / local hospice expansion
Preschool
Soccer team
Preserved and expanded agricultural lands
Future, page 2
Energy independence
Wildlife corridors
Multi national-racial
Sensible cluster division
Affordable retirement
Network of walking paths
An after school program
National resource for protection & preservation
Still beautiful
Economic diversity
Transportation for non-drivers
Book club
Tennis courts
More activities for teenagers
Community education on nuclear power
Plenty of sand/gravel for our 60 miles of dirt roads
Improved combination of school and community activities
Some social connection for Jamaicans who work here every summer
A large toll for non-residents for covered bridge use
A Dummerston youth group with a large range of activities
No building on town green
No fear of nuclear devastation
Town picnics
Café offering dinner with local foods
Jobs for our kids
Not just a bedroom community
Safe bike trails to get to the West River bike trail
School fair
Networking opportunities for young kids and parents
Foreign policy cares about all people
Larger library
Cleaner water for swimming in the West River
Young people involved in the Grange
Protected venal pools
Traffic calms down
Elimination of mud season
High speed Internet
Summer concerts
Walking trails
Covered bridge closed to all but Dummerston residents
Open to everyone
Communications network
Add a pot bellied stove in the Mobil – make it more like a general
store