That Main Street is also the well-trafficked Route 100 does not detract from Weston's small-town, old-fashioned feel. Many of the attractions of this village, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, are within a five-minute walk of the Village Green. For such a small place, Weston has more than its share of claims to fame. It's the original home of the Vermont Country Store, which has been running its mail-order catalog business since the 1940s; the flagship store is still on Main Street. The Weston Playhouse is Vermont's oldest professional theater company. Summer brings additional happenings in the arts, along with plenty of recreation, since the village sits in a valley surrounded by the Green Mountain National Forest. Come fall, you get not only the changing leaves, but two big October events: the annual Weston Antiques Show and Weston Craft Show. But as Sandy Gregg of the local Chamber of Commerce says, one of the area's biggest pleasures is free: "We don't charge to sit on an Adirondack chair with a good book."
