Celebrating the iconic general store and the Vermont way of life, collects over one hundred family recipes, including such offerings as pepper-crusted beef tenderloin, rabbit braised in hard cider, and Vermont maple-tomato salsa.

Arriving in the lakeside town of Good Hart, Michigan, Becky Thatcher--just turned forty years old with little to show for it--encounters eighty-year-old Mary Jackson, who has almost given up hope that someone will come along to carry on her legacy as the owner of The Very Cherry General Store. For most of her eighty years, Mary Jackson has endured the steady invasion of tourists, influencers and real estate developers who have discovered the lakeside...