Oh, Brattleboro (the town right across the river from hinsdale) is in my area. There's a number of restaurants that are pretty good. I particularly like Elliot street fish chips and more as well as whetstone. There aren't very many bars think there's one or two. If you want bars you'll need to go to keene. It's in NH and is a college town of sorts. There's modest man which is a Micro brewery and pretty good. Then you have la machina which has a rotating menu. I haven't been in a little but they should still be on their Jordanian menu which I quite like. Or you could hit up soles which is a themed bar/restaurant that is set in prohibition Era that generally has live music.