“It’s going to be 16 degrees tomorrow night,” I overheard a woman tell a couple who had just arrived from Florida, and who had just been seated in the tavern of the Kedron Valley Inn. If they’d be outside, she added, they should bundle up.
Sometimes Vermonters take a quiet glee in delivering deadpan news of impending “weather,” and the tourists blinked back for a moment, digesting the news. For the moment, though, they were toastily ensconced near the fire here, pints in hand.
When the prospect of the first freeze is only a night away, our thoughts turn to places such as this. I’m constantly taking mental notes of inns with fires, but can still draw a blank when pressed to find easygoing spots where you can kick back with decent food and some flames. I’d driven by this South Woodstock inn on Route 106 dozens of times, but always thought this brick, Federal-style building looked too formal to be welcoming.
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