Fifty Cows and a Forty-Five

In late spring when the college left, the town died.

Kildare Dobbs walked down Main Street and marveled at how quiet the once-bustling avenue quickly transformed into a sleepy, backwater burg when the students returned home. Because of the shops that lined the street though, everyone remembered that it was the college that prevented it from being like every other canal town village with roots in the 19th century with boarded-up storefronts and falling-down buildings.