Lemme is the driving force behind American Dream Town, USA, an enterprise that is running a contest to whittle 150 U.S. communities (three from each state) down to 50 American Dream Towns, which will be featured in a book Lemme is putting together. (She says she's choosing between offers from two major publishers.) Soon to come: merchandise and a string of American Dream Shops, four of which are to open in the Hamptons next spring and will sell, Lemme said, "all kinds of nifty stuff" with a patriotic theme.

 Chambers and CVBs all over the US are asking their members
to VOTE for their American Dream Town!

OLD SAYBROOK -- Old Saybrook is in the running to be voted an American Dream Town.
A website promoting the contest, organized by the host of a Long Island television show, puts the town ahead of Greenwich and Mystic in the balloting for the honor of being the dream town of Connecticut.
If Old Saybrook stays ahead, it would mean publicity, television coverage and possibly more - but no one can say how much.
Danielle Watts-St. Germain, the school-to-career teacher/coordinator for the school district, recently received an e-mail from a friend who works for the Mystic Chamber of Commerce asking her to vote for that town in the contest.

Montauk, American Dream Town, New York. So how does that sound to you? I like it. I like everything that has to do with 'The Beautiful' and the 'American Dream'. Did you know that there are many little towns out there with pretty middle names? Edenton, NC is claiming that they are "America's Prettiest Little Town". Just a little further south the elected officials of the Town of Cheraw, SC are convinced that they are living in the "Prettiest Town in Dixie", 'cause someone said so. Folk musician Bob Gibson had never visited the fair little city when he penned the song 'Abilene' in 1956, but he was right on target in the town's opinion; "Abilene, Abilene, prettiest town I've ever seen, folks down there don't treat you mean, in Abilene, my Abilene." The Ladies Home Journal described Woodstock, Vermont as the "The Prettiest Small Town in America". So what about "America's Most Beautiful Village"? Well we all know that is East Hampton, N.Y.; voted by National Geographic Magazine. The "Quietest Town in America" is supposedly Columbia, NC. Ahoskie, NC, which is probably the 2nd quietest town in America, had to use another term "Where all things go at a slower pace"! Littleton, NH was just recently named "9th Best Small Town in America"; if you ask anyone in Littleton who gave the town the lovely by-name; no one was really sure.