Hi, I'm Chloe Wynne, host of Co Publics podcast Generation Gilm and I am in Washington Depot, Co the birthplace of the series.

Did you see this, by the way?

No, I was buying and I was at W yesterday buying a new steamer, and I saw this which is really, you know, cool.

But there's a whole thing, Mich this is it's all about it.

But.

The real life Stars Hollo because there's always like, you So I just thought of, you know, I will I will save it.

I will borrow it and give it bac So, you know, amongst all the bu we all joke it's the the gift that keeps on giving.

We...I cannot begin to describe the travelers who come every sin every single day from all over t And I know when we go visit the and Fran at the bookstore, they They write down where people com I think Washington could inspire a lot of things.

Washington is a great town.

It's a giving community.

It's a smart community.

A lot happens here all the time.

And, I mean, I was going to say considering the size of the town but it doesn't really make any d a lot happens here.

How often would you say you talk who's coming to the town because of the show?

Every day?

I mean, literally, if I mean, we can show I, we can show you the notebook that we have at the counter where we sort of kee track of what happens on a daily and down at the bottom is Gilmore Girls from and where they're from, and they're from all over the United I was actually contacted by th Connecticut Office of Tourism la because they had, I think it was travel journalists coming from I because there's a direct flight into Bradley.

And so they were going to tour, around the state, and they asked them what they wanted to see.

And the first thing they asked can we go to where the Gilmore G based on?

Yeah, it's been in our family fo years now.

So, yeah.

And, my grandfather started it.

My dad owns it no and then, I work with them toget So it's the two of us.

Yeah, yea How is it working with him?

Good.

Very good.

Yeah.

We got along gr No problems.

Yeah.

It's nice.

It's.

It's fun to be in a family busin because it's helpful when you have kids to you know, be able to support eac Yeah.

It's our, our hardware store, gr store, the bank, the post office town hall, the police station, which is i what used to be it's in the old And then we have the artist asso So, yeah, it's kind of all right So when Amy Sherman-Palladino w here, she obviously got an up cl Look at the private school envir So I, I kno Chilton is supposed to be in Har but it's go the it's got the feel and it's h It's they're celebrating their 1 anniversary.

I'm pretty sure it's 175, so.

Ye So it's been here a really long I worked the very first fest tha was here in our town.

I don't know, maybe ten years ag I don't, I don't know, eight yea it was a rainy weekend.

It was chilly and the fans were They were so happy, just happy to see each other and to to shar what they love about the show.

So yeah, it's been reall it's been really wonderful for O