Francestown, NH – Bill Smith, a 90-year-old philanthropist from Nevada, had never set foot in New Hampshire when he decided to save a 203-year-old country store in the small community here. He read the plight of Francestown in the Wall Street Journal in July 2017: Townspeople had seen a piece …

It was during an inspection of their 1920s colony home in Darien, Connecticut that Josh Peschko felt that he and his wife, Kristy, had chosen not only the right city, but the right one. district. “School had just come out, and there were kids coming out of every nook and …