LIZ CLEVELAND, RIGHT, leads a large group of dancers who formed an unannounced “flash mob” on Main Street on Saturday afternoon and staged a high-energy dance for the 6,000-plus people at the annual Middlebury Chili Festival.
Independent photo/John McCright
MIDDLEBURY — More than 6,000 people poured into Addison County’s shire town on Saturday, March 9, to feast on more than 60 varieties of chili in what has become one of the state’s signature winter draws, the annual Middlebury Chili Festival.