Last night I attended a dinner sponsored by the Methodist Church of Salem and Hebron to benefit the Bedlam Corners General Store, which was damaged during a Christmas week fire. There were well over 100 people there buying their ham dinners, more people than I have ever seen gathered in my town. The General Store inspired the name for Bedlam Farm, and is the center of this beautiful, small hamlet. I am thinking of ways to help myself – a reading, talk or selling photos or notecards to benefit the effort to rebuild the store, which unfortunately had no insurance. Marie the owner is determined to rebuild and the town is determined to help her. A good goal for 2011, to see the General Store, on which so many depend, open again.  A beacon in a Wal-Mart world.