Wilmington village green
— — a small green that has watched the road for two centuries.
Not only on a wall.
“The village green at the crossroads of Routes 9 and 100, in the Deerfield Valley town of Wilmington. A Civil War memorial under a sugar maple, white clapboard storefronts on three sides, the river one block south. The town was nearly cut in half by Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011 and rebuilt by hand over the following two years. From the studio.
Wilmington village green, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Wilmington sits at the junction of Routes 9 and 100 in the Deerfield Valley of southern Vermont, in Windham County, about 19 miles west of Brattleboro and 9 miles south of the Mount Snow ski area. The town was chartered in 1751 and grew on lumber, the Deerfield River, and later the ski road north to Haystack and Mount Snow. The village green is anchored by a Civil War soldier monument and surrounded by the storefronts of a downtown that runs three blocks along Route 9 and one block south to the river. Memorial Hall and the Pettee Memorial Library frame the open lawn.
On 28 August 2011 Tropical Storm Irene sent the Deerfield River and its tributary Beaver Brook through downtown Wilmington. Water reached the second-floor windows of buildings along West Main Street; Dot's Restaurant, the village's century-old diner, was torn from its foundation. The rebuild took roughly two years and was largely done by local crews and volunteer labour from across New England. The Vermont Agency of Transportation rebuilt the Route 9 bridge in fifteen weeks. Dot's reopened in May 2014, anchoring a downtown that had quietly become a model for small-town flood recovery.
The green sits one block north of the Route 9 / Route 100 crossroads at the centre of the village. Memorial Hall, the Pettee Memorial Library, and the white-spired Wilmington Baptist Church frame the open lawn. Mount Snow's base lodge is a ten-minute drive north on Route 100; the Molly Stark Trail (Route 9) runs east to Brattleboro and west to Bennington over Hogback Mountain. Most village storefronts stay open through every season, with foot traffic peaking during fall foliage in early October and ski season from mid-December through March.