"Town Eating Day" (VPR)

From Vermont Public Radio:

Some in Norwich, Vermont have been concerned about a drop-off in civic interest - especially on Town Meeting Day, the first Tuesday in March . So to get more people to town meeting, and to get the conversation flowing, they've turned to food on Saturday, March 1st, before Town Meeting gets underway on Monday.

It's called Town Eating Day and described as follows:

“A combination open-house, town forum, and community lunch, Town Eating celebrates the human scale of small-town civic life.”

http://www.towneating.org/Site/Welcome.html