Center for Cartoon Studies

I’m currently in White River Junction, Vermont visiting the Center for Cartoon Studies. I arrived yesterday and delivered a short talk to the 21 students who make up the inagural incoming class, then have been kicking around the town since then. Below are a few pictures:

Here’s the main drag of downtown White River Junction:

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…and the Hotel Coolidge where I’m currently staying. It’s seems to be riding the fine line between “rustic” and “delapitated”:

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The Polka Dot Diner:

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The Center for Cartoon Studies:

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The White River:

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Apparently everyone in New England drives a Subaru wagon.

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A stuffed alpaca in the town museum’s front window

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Cartoonist Robyn Chapman organizing CCS’s new Charles Schulz library:

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