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  • New age town in U.S. embraces dollar alternative

    06/19/2007 7:03:48 AM PDT · by Barney Gumble · 84 replies · 1,900+ views
    Reuters ^ | 19 Jun 07 | Scott Malone
    GREAT BARRINGTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A walk down Main Street in this New England town calls to mind the pictures of Norman Rockwell, who lived nearby and chronicled small-town American life in the mid-20th Century. So it is fitting that the artist's face adorns the 50 BerkShares note, one of five denominations in a currency adopted by towns in western Massachusetts to support locally owned businesses over national chains. "I just love the feel of using a local currency," said Trice Atchison, 43, a teacher who used BerkShares to buy a snack at a cafe in Great Barrington, a town...