Tooling around the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York (where Rip Van Wnkle went to sleep) I was struck by a handful of roadside political signs (only a handful–we are still pretty sleepy up here).

1. Outside Andes: PEACE and NO WAR.

2. Throughout Kerhonkson: SUPPORT OUR TROOPS and WELCOME HOME SGT. FRIES (a young man who just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq).

Guess which town was recently featured in the New York Times’s Escapes section, where it was called trendy?