Tom McCleary:  

My wife Sheree, son Sean and I have been living the dream here in White River Junction, Vermont, since 1986. As anyone who has lived in a certain place as long as we have here, can understand, you tend to get pretty settled. It won't ever be quite the same as folks who've lived here their whole lives, but we certainly do have that strong sense of place, that you hear about. We do love Vermont. We have neighbors across the street who lived in NYC, Manhattan, before moving to White River Junction. They had very exciting lives in the city, very stimulating and of course are really into the arts and culture. But in the end they valued small town life more and every time we hear a story like theirs, which is often, it makes us feel alittle better about where we live. For anyone interested in geography, our location here in WRJct. is known as the "Upper Valley". The local newspaper is called the Valley News. The Hub of the Upper Valley are the three towns, White River Junction, Lebanon, NH and Hanover,NH (home to Dartmouth College). I do often think about my former life in Oneida and the people I knew there including many of you reading this. Whenever I hear people around here talk about seeing so and so who was a classmate ...Expand for more