Happy Valentine’s Day from Brattleboro!

This video’s cute

And so,  frame by frame,

Let’s go on a trip

Down memory lane

(the rhyming purists among you, and the snarky, might think that should be memory “lame,” but those people have no heart, and it’s Valentine’s Day, so we shun those people today)

• The opening shots were taken from Mt. Wantastiquet, which I’ve featured here several times…
• The little animated airplane is sponsored by The Richards Group, whose building I look out on every day.
• I don’t really get the concept of the video… a bunch of guys in union suits running around town. I guess they’re trying to deliver a valentine, but can’t find the recipient? Maybe  if they look in every single business that’s part of the Downtown Business Alliance… whose mission is still sort of like the Chamber of Commerce, but not exactly… I guess.
• Then they go to the Harris Hill ski jump. Next weekend is the annual competition.
• And the soundtrack? Well, that’s a song called “Anna” by The Snaz
• When the inner tube lands on top of the car, it’s being driven by the video’s producer/director, Bill Forchion. He’s part of the team at NECCA, the circus school, with which we have some ties, and a funny (if overlong) performer in his own right.
• They drive right past the New England Youth Theatre, where we’ve been (although not for a while, come to think of it).
• Then, the action shifts to the hardware store…
• Next, A Candle in the Night furniture, which it looks like I’ve never written about… an oversight I’ll have to fix!
• On into my very own bike shop, Brattleboro Bicycle
• Now, the frozen yogurt place in the Brooks House
• Now, into the hippie bookstore. The girl is reading a book full of old maps of Brattleboro, which I just happen to have a copy of
• Next up, Boomerang, a great (if pricey) little store that we don’t actually go in very much. When we were first thinking about moving here, we talked to the building’s owners about possibly renovating the top floor, which has been empty since a fire like 50 years ago. The shopgirl near the dressing room also works at my primary bar.
• Skateboard boy receives the punt in front of Brattle Burger, which used to be Milagros, then cruises past Sam’s outdoor store and the Latchis with its new (and very romantic) marquee
• And then, finally Cupid bonks at the town limit sign, which just happens to be something I’ve done myself at that exact spot, because that sign is often the site of hotly-contested sprints as we finish bike rides.