Our GoFundMe Video

Richard And Beth's GoFundMe video from Richard Ruane on Vimeo.

 

This is the video we made for our GoFundMe campaign to raise money for our new recording "Notch Road." For more information about our campaign you can visit our GoFundMe site at

https://www.gofundme.com/HelpRichard-Beth

and also check out our Facebook page at

https://www.facebook.com/RichardandBethmusic

 

We decided it would make the video more fun if we visited some of the places we were talking about as well as places we liked. Richard lives in Ripton, home of the Ripton Country Store. It's a great place run by Dick and Sue Collitt. Residents of Ripton go there to get their mail (there's no mail delivery to houses in town) and get whatever things they might need. It's not a bad place to sit by the woodstove for a chat either. It's locally famous as the store where the ice freezer says "IEC". We started out our video sitting on the bench on the front porch.

 

Being in Vermont we figured we should show off something typical of Vermont. Sledding seemed like a good bet. We're sledding on the little sledding hill at the Lincoln Community School. Richard worked there for a dozen years and both of Beth's children went there.

 

We had a few quick scenes taking place at the Ripton Community House, home of the Ripton Community Coffee House.

 

After that we zipped on down to Middlebury to show off the Middlebury Green, home of the Middlebury Festival on the Green.

 

We had planned to show off a little of downtown Middlebury outside Carol's Hungry Mind (a great place to get a leisurely cup of coffee) but the traffic noise was too loud. Next we thought we'd have the Middlebury Falls in the background, but the falls were too loud as well. We settled for the lower part of the old Sheldon Boarding House in Frog Hollow.

 

The album takes its name from the Notch Road which runs from Bristol up to Lincoln. We wound up at the top of it where it ends at the intersection with the Ripton Road. It seemed like a good place to go, even if it was a triffle windy.

 

We wanted to have a scene on Main Street in Bristol but the traffic was too noisy in Bristol too. We were hungry by then and decided to get some lunch at the Bristol Cliffs Cafe (formerly the Bristol Bakery). Richard's son is a line cook there and put a smiling face on our sandwiches. Celina just happened to bring out our order as Richard finished talking. Good sandwiches!

 

Next we went up to Lincoln and did a couple scenes on the stage in Burnham Hall.

 

Then we went across the street to another renowned establishment, the Lincoln General Store,. It is very well run by Vaneasa Stearns and it's another hub to its community. It also has another bench on another front porch.

 

Finally we ended up at the intersection of the Jerusalem Road and Russell Young Road, not too far from the Jerusalem Store. Since it's where Beth took the photo for the cover it seemed like a good place to end up. It wasn't quite as colorful in January though.

 

Have fun!