This sounds like a wonderful book. The only small town memories I have are of visiting the town where my father grew up. They had a population of 400+ and over 200 were in the over 50 age range. It was a nice place and they only had 1 stop light, one grocery, 1 small diner and a place called the Spider Webb (the town was Webb, IA) it is a gift/ information shop about the town and it's history.