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Budget Travel magazine nominated Kennett Square as of
America’s coolest towns and a couple of resident business owners are thrilled.
Olen Grimes, owner of Artworks and Metalworks on S. Union
Street said he has no idea how Kennett Square came to be nominated for the cool
town vote, but he jumped on the bandwagon as soon as he heard.
“My involvement, basically, is trying to get people to vote.
Once I found out we had been nominated for it I’ve been trying to do everything
in my power to spread the word to get people to vote.”
One of his computer-based ideas, he said, is something he
calls “KIC’ed.”
“That’s ‘Kennett is Cool,’” Grimes said. “Along with the
link [to vote] you e-mail it to somebody. They get ‘KIC’ed’ and they’re
supposed to vote then ‘KIC’ somebody else.”
He said he got involved because he loves Kennett Square.
“It’s a great town.”
He thinks having the borough voted as being the best cool
town would mean more tourism, which would mean more business for local
merchants, as well as more pride in the town.
Grimes said he’s “tickled to death” over the prospect.
Kathi Laferty, owner of the Mushroom Cap on E. State Street and
the coordinator for the annual Mushroom Festival, isn’t sure how the borough
was nominated either, but she, like Grimes, is pleased with the idea.
“When I saw that we were nominated I immediately went to the
Web site, checked it out and said, ‘Yeah, we are cool,’ so why not try to get
us up to the top?” she said.
People can vote more than once and Laferty herself votes on
a daily basis.
“We were below the top 10 and quickly moved up to the top
10. So now we’re in fifth place,” she said.
Her goal, however, is to see Kennett Square come out on top.
She went to a state Web site, she said, and asked people there to vote for
Kennett saying it’s better for a Pennsylvania town to win than some town from
any other state. She’s also posted the contest to Facebook to request votes.
“It’s working out. We’ve got more than 15,000 votes now,”
Laferty said.
To be nominated, a town must have fewer than 10,000
residents, but attracting new ones because of quality
of life, arts, nature and a restaurant scene.
The top 10 towns will get a write up in the Budget Travel
magazine.
People interested in voting should go to www.budgettravel.com/bt-srv/coolestsmalltowns/CST2010.html.
The voting ends May 9.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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