Much of the Shrewsbury is nestled in the mountains away from through roads and highways. Though one hamlet, Cuttingsville, is spliced by Route 103, many of the town's residents live up in the hills. To get there, one must turn off from Route 103 onto the winding, two-lane Lincoln Hill Road. Homes here are nestled into the rolling green hillsides that drop to give way to the most incredible scenic views and conjure notions of a New England Shangri-la. The homes are part of the town but seem to have their own unique place there - carved into the landscape in individual seclusion.
Larger buildings pop up along the way.
The community meeting house is a handsome white building tucked in a grove of trees just off Lincoln Hill Road in Shrewsbury Center. There are several inns throughout the place and Pierce's Store, although closed, still looks like it sells petrol from an old pump in front and penny candy from jars behind the counter. The town is a quiet place, but in the fall and winter of 1986-87 it attracted crowds of thousands and the glitz and glamour of international media celebrity. The whole thing started when a male moose wandered onto one of Larry Carrara's pastures and seemingly fell in love with one of his cows - a Hereford named Jessica. The moose, dubbed Bullwinkle, stayed for 76 days, often affectionately nuzzling his bovine belle, and attracted a literal herd of curious onlookers.