Weston

It's difficult to imagine a more picture-perfect New England townscape than Weston's, which revolves around its village green and has a bandstand in the middle. The Vermont Country Store's double-decker porches look out onto the narrow main street, and on the other side of the common is a red mill with a water wheel. Many tourists come to Weston for the country store. Since it was reopened in the 1940s by a descendant of the original owner, the original store, with its pot-bellied stove, wooden display cabinets, jars of penny candy, and antique goods hanging from the beams, has grown. However, it keeps the character and a lot of vintage goods that aren't found elsewhere.

A museum and shop combined, the Vermont Scale Museum at the shop showcases measuring tools from the 19th century. The historical Weston is home to a number of museums, including this one. The grist mill exhibits the complex network of gears and belts that powered the grindstones as one of only a few operational New England water mills. Antique tools can be found elsewhere in the mill, and the tinsmith's shop is typically occupied. The Farrar-Mansur House, which was finished in 1797, has collections of quilts, samplers, costumes, toys, and musical instruments as well as mid-19th-century decor and furnishings. A Concord Coach that served as the band wagon for a neighborhood brass band is housed in a separate structure.

The imposing Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Vermont's oldest professional theater company, is situated right next to the green and has a year-round schedule that includes concerts, opera, juried arts and crafts shows, and plays and musicals in the summer.