by Marry Wakefield Buxton –
URBANNA — Visiting the Urbanna Oyster Festival is the best way I know of celebrating small town America. And Urbanna, Virginia, is the most charming hometown of all!
I know something about small towns because I grew up in Vermilion, Ohio, a little town between Cleveland and Toledo on the south shore of Lake Erie. It was heart-wrenching for me to leave home at age 17 when going off to college in Virginia. Then I married a Virginian and that was the end for me of life in my beloved hometown.
