Brattleboro is lovely, though that is a really scary road that leads into it from NYState. Many years ago, my friends and I drove over from either Stephentown or Williamstown, and that road terrified me. Or maybe it was the hills: they made me feel very claustrophobic. And that's Lovecraft country as well as Kipling country... Though we did pass through a lovely town called Williston or Williton or something like that? Didn't have time to stop and look around, but it was charming...