I am not really giving away a Fall trip, just things I picked up along the way on my Fall trip! This is the assembled basket.
I drove through Westfield, New York and picked up some grape juice concentrate from Welch's. Their headquarters and plant is located there. You mix the concentrate with sparkling water and boy oh boy is it goooood!!! I also bought some wine jelly from a local vineyard.
Maple syrup from Chautauqua, New York.
Barley sugar lollipops from Maine.
Some old fashioned candy and gum from The General Store in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Maple sugar candy
A twig pencil
Cranberry soap
A magnet with a pic of a famous Norman Rockwell painting.
Blueberry jam from Stonewall Kitchens.
A bag of cranberry salt water taffy made in Rockport, Mass..
And it is all packed in this cute basket I bought in Maine.
This is the town where I bought a bunch of the items.
I always stop here on my trips.
This is the town that Norman Rockwell made famous in many of his paintings.
There are cute little alleys filled with restaurants and shops.
Wonderful old buildings
Lots of arts and crafts shops
This is the charming little country store.
It looks like something out of my childhood.
They still sell penny candy. While I was there a bunch of little kids came in and were buying it. I remember going to the store with a dime to buy candy. I am not THAT old either!
To win the baskets just sign on as a follower and leave a comment.
If you already follow me, just leave a comment describing your favorite small town.
Please also mention the giveaway on your blog.
The famous Red Lion Inn.
Enter only once by midnight, Friday, October 23.
I will pick the winner by using a random number drawer.
The winner will be announced on Saturday morning. The time will depend on how early I can drag my blog tech(son) out of bed.
I still have more Salem pics to post in the next few days. Those of you that are using them for home schooling purposes, I promise to get them up soon.
And I will be doing a Halloween giveaway which I will announce next weekend! I had so much fun doing the Mrs.'s B's giveaway that I thought this just might add to the festivities of my favorite season.
I am not really giving away a Fall trip, just things I picked up along the way on my Fall trip! This is the assembled basket.
I drove through Westfield, New York and picked up some grape juice concentrate from Welch's. Their headquarters and plant is located there. You mix the concentrate with sparkling water and boy oh boy is it goooood!!! I also bought some wine jelly from a local vineyard.
Maple syrup from Chautauqua, New York.
Barley sugar lollipops from Maine.
Some old fashioned candy and gum from The General Store in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Maple sugar candy
A twig pencil
Cranberry soap
A magnet with a pic of a famous Norman Rockwell painting.
Blueberry jam from Stonewall Kitchens.
A bag of cranberry salt water taffy made in Rockport, Mass..
And it is all packed in this cute basket I bought in Maine.
This is the town where I bought a bunch of the items.
I always stop here on my trips.
This is the town that Norman Rockwell made famous in many of his paintings.
There are cute little alleys filled with restaurants and shops.
Wonderful old buildings
Lots of arts and crafts shops
This is the charming little country store.
It looks like something out of my childhood.
They still sell penny candy. While I was there a bunch of little kids came in and were buying it. I remember going to the store with a dime to buy candy. I am not THAT old either!
To win the baskets just sign on as a follower and leave a comment.
If you already follow me, just leave a comment describing your favorite small town.
Please also mention the giveaway on your blog.
The famous Red Lion Inn.
Enter only once by midnight, Friday, October 23. 
I will pick the winner by using a random number drawer.
The winner will be announced on Saturday morning. The time will depend on how early I can drag my blog tech(son) out of bed.
I still have more Salem pics to post in the next few days. Those of you that are using them for home schooling purposes, I promise to get them up soon.
And I will be doing a Halloween giveaway which I will announce next weekend! I had so much fun doing the Mrs.'s B's giveaway that I thought this just might add to the festivities of my favorite season.
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I think my favorite small town is Holidaysburg, PA*partially because it's one of the other small towns I can think of*. My great Aunt and Uncle had a home there(which they've given my grandma to live in now) and we'd visit through the year. On main street there are a bunch of little shops, including a penny candy store. I'd go in with all the money I had saved up and I'd buy candy for everyone. I never liked sweets very much but I always was excited to spend my money there!
This is a very lovely give-away, count me in :3 I'm absolutely in love with that little basket and am already imagining skeins of yarn in it. Also loving the cranberry soap.
I'm not sure I have a favorite small town, but I have one that holds happy memories. Holidaysburg, PA is where my grandma now lives. Growing up she lived with me and my dad, we'd travel to visit her family and stay in Holidaysburg. Main street has a penny candy store and several small shops, toys and all sorts of cute things. I'd go in with all the change I had saved up from cans and the like and would buy everyone candy. I never really liked sweets but I've always loved to shop!
I am sad that penny candy is so rare anymore, should my friends have children, I fully intend to go on an adventure to take them to a penny candy shop!
I am already following your blog -- gotta love your photos and reading about your travels. :) As for a favorite little town, well, there are a couple of them in the American West. Even as a tourist, it was easy to feel "at home" there. My favorite is probably Julian, CA. I was there with my mom, my American friend Pam, and her mother-in-law. We had such a fantastic time in that little town, checking out the stores and enjoying a delicious lunch in a family restaurant. Julian is famous for its apples -- and yummy apples it had! :)
Of course, there are also nice villages in Germany. :)
Greetings from Munich
and thanks for organizing such a great giveaway,
Birgit
My favorite small town would be Mackinaw Island in Upper Michigan. You get there by boat and can only get around the Island by bike or horse carriage.
Thanks for the Home schooling photos:)
My favorite small town is Bath, England. I love this town. I rarely make a trip to the UK without stopping here. It is a crescent city (most of the streets are crescent shaped rather than straight lines.) Of course there are the baths and lovely chapel outside with the angels climbing up and down ladders carved in the front.
Shops everywhere selling all kinds of tempting goodies. There is a pub (it has changed names several times) to up and to the left of the chapel that we go to for lunch. I sit in there with a pint and write out all my postcards to my friends and family back home.
Although Edinburgh, Scotland is my real home (in my heart at least), this would be my second choice. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share and read what other bloggers had to say.
Cheers!
The little village is called Jonsered and is placed some miles outside the big city Gotheburg. This village was a mix of swedish cottages and english town houses, since the family that owned the big factory there, origined from England.
The first thing one noticed when comming in to the village was two grocery stores on the right side, just beside the big mountine rising up in the air. One was private owned and also a funeral buissness. The other was a cooperative store and they also sold medicine :-) On the left side of the town there were the homes for them working in the factory.
Half way through the village there was a candy/tobacko shop, just beside the end stop for the bus. When we travelled to Jonsered by bus (because we had a little cottage there) we always bought an ice cream either to eat on our way to the cottage or one when waiting for the bus to go home.
Just before leaving the village on the other side there was a petrol station on the left side (they too sold candy and tobacko) and there were also a diner much like the ones You have in the US but that are really rare over here. The owner had a big german sheperd that loved children, so mostly I stayed with him if my parents was going in to the diner :-) :-)
Nowdays the village looks much the same, but the diner is gone, the factory closed and the candy/tobacko shop by the bus stop is gone I´ve heard. But in my mind it´ll always stay the same.
If I remember I´ll go there and take some pictures when going home from Gothenburg.
Have a great day now!
Christer.
My favortite town well here in Michigan I really love Grand Haven on the shore of Lake Michigan. There are so many though hard to pick!
Jen
I 'm a follower already and my favorite town would have to be Carmel, California. It's a magical place. My dad lived there for a while growing up and my parents bought their first house there so I have some family ties to the area. (Not that we could live there now as much as I'd love to, the tiniest house-which is maybe the size of a room-is over a million dollars..even with the economy!)
It's a beach town with beautiful upscale art galleries and stores(nowadays), but it's still a small town. The ocean there is a teal/aqua color that shimmers like pixie dust has been thrown in it even on the cloudiest of days.
My favorite store is also there (a store my dad helped the guy with the legal issues of buying it 30 or so years ago) and has a path along the side of the building which leads to the "secret garden" out back.
One of my favorite towns is Williamsburg. Yes, I know it is so...commercial yet I can just picture walking down the street with a market basket on my arm, listening to my skirts swish as I walk.
My favorite small town might be Doolin, in Co. Clare, Ireland. It's only really got two or three streets, but has four pubs, great sessions, and an incredible landscape.
As far as my favorite teeny tiny town... there are too many to choose from, but Sugarcreek Ohio and Lancaster PA are on my top favorites list in my neck of the woods.
Please enter me in your contest and THANK you for sharing mine with your readers too!
i visited a cute little town when i took a roadtrip to see a show. we stayed in monroe, michigan and they had a cute town square with the coolest lilypad fountain! they also had a sign for where the town's whipping post used to stand :)
i am already a blog follower. yay!
Also, I've been all over New England and it is my favorite place in the WORLD.
At the moment, we're in South Korea. Then hoping to head to Germany.
But someday, we're retiring back to Massachusetts and home-sweet-New England with all its goodies!
It looks like you really enjoyed your trip and the photos of Salem brought back wonderful memories, so thank you for sharing!
My favorite small town is in Gaspesie, along the St-Lawrence estuary, almost on the Atlantic. It is called Grande-Vallée (big valley) and is a typical fishermans small town. We used to go there once or twice a year to relax, enjoy the power of the sea and fish. I made my man promise me we would go next summer. ;)
I love New Hope's quaint charm, small bungalo style houses line shady streets and the very center of town is a bustle of activity. The entire stretch of Main St is lined with small businesses that peddle everything from garden crafts, to ice cream, to vinyls to witchy goods. No Walmarts here, just artisans and people with dreams. :)
What lovely photos you shared!
My favorite small town is probably New Hope, Pa. I haven't been there in a long time.
But I also like Rockport Me. And West Yellowstone, Mt. and man, I could go on.
Thanks for such a cool giveaway.
I visited Salem a few years ago for Halloween. I was visiting friends in Boston and we took the train. It was amazing. I live in LA now, but I'm a small town girl at heart, so the small town flavor of Salem really charmed me. Plus, all of the history! I just loved it. We only spent one night, but I'm desperate to spend a week some day.
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sign me up for the giveaway!!!!
Something else we have in common--Chows. We had Chows for years. I adore them.
Wendy
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