This obscure board game sure seems to hold out the promise of nonstop, pulse-pounding action, does it not? Description found online:

You roll dice and move your pawn along a path through the town. There are incidents in your path concerning the town meeting as you progress to the town common. …The incidents are believable and reflects what could actually happen before or during an actual town meeting. First player to reach the town common wins!

And you wonder why “New England Town Meeting Game” has never rivaled Scrabble or Jenga or Hungry Hungry Hippos in the pantheon. Well, it might be more exciting if the players all had to deal with some kind of disability… because in real life our beloved, much-mythologized Town Meeting seems to have a problem when it comes to accommodating disabilities.

So says a new advocacy group, REV UP Vermont, not to be confused with Renewable Energy Vermont. REV with an UP launched on Town Meeting Day* in an effort to focus attention on the plight of people with disabilities who want to take part in local governance.

*to very little notice; did anyone in our media report on the group? Bueller?

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