For our Geo Quiz today -- we're looking for a New England state. We mentioned the White Mountains and the Connecticut River.
Put those two landmarks together and you get New Hampshire!
hat's where you'll find a classic French bakery called "Le Rendez Vous."
Owner Verlaine Daeron who is French almost had to shut down the bakery recently when the application to renew her U-S visa was denied. But residents of the town of Colebrook, New Hampshire launched a letter campaign to protest. They wrote the US Embassy in Paris.
They just weren't ready to part with their little French bakery and everything it has to offer.
"There's something called big country bread, honey soft bread, and of course baguettes, cranberry, rasberry croissants, chocolate, blueberry, strawberry rhubard, almond croissants, so all kinds of treats this morning"
That's Colebrook resident Benoit LaMontaigne. He says when "Le Rendez-vous" bakery opened nine years ago -- it changed people's lives.
"Colbrook had never experienced this kind of culture. Most people didn't know what a baguette was so here all of sudden these folks were bringing a new culture and bringing the past back if you will. Now there's a bakery in town making fresh bread every single day, locals were used to buying store-bought bread and throwing it in the refrigerator . Now all of a sudden it's going back to the days of their grandparents where you actually do this kind of thing on a daily basis, you go and get your bread and some pastries. So after having this wonderful new way of life in town, then to be told all of a sudden now they're not going to renew this woman's VISA and the bakery's going to have to close, they just reacted immediately and emotionally and said, "Look we're not going to let this happen!"
Listen to our interview with Le Rendez Vous owner Verlaine Daeron: