COUNTRY STORE WISDOM

Vermont, and I daresay, its twin, New Hampshire,have numerous country stores, around which much social life and various, sometimes serious, discussions took place, especially with the US Post Office being in the same store with the storekeeper often being the Post Master, but that has, save for a few rural communities, changed with the Postal Service shutting down operations they consider unprofitable, a notion that did not exist until the 1970's and which Nixon put into place, of course. The Power of the Post Office has steadily and surely diminished ever since and some predict its ultimate demise! But this blog is not about the Postal Service but about Vermont topics.