Whether this is a good marathon depends on your goal. Not necessarily a small town marathon but one that has a great community feel which is nice.

Some bigger issues though if your goal is to BQ. They promote it as a fast BQ qualifying and although the course is decent the numbers tell a different story in terms of % of qualifiers. But that number could be higher I believe if the race director hadn't failed in two key areas.
First - they promoted pace groups which is sought out by many trying to attain a BQ. However, after listing 3 and 3:05 nobody actually showed up to pace at those times. The fastest pacer was 3:10. Considering you need to pad yourself by a few minutes this really means no male under the age of 40 actually had a pacer to help them attain a time to get into Boston. I chose this race solely to BQ and they falsely promoted what they were providing.

Second, also a BQ issue - they ran the half and full over the same course. Only, the last few miles overlapped the lead marathoners with the half-marathon walkers. Meaning, as a marathoner you were literally having to run the last 3 miles weaving around people walking and at times having to shout at them to get out of the way because it was completely blocked. Incredibly poor planning. I BQ'd but imagine a few people missed theirs because of this. Not fun to have to manage around people like this after 23 miles. It was probably the poorest planned finish I've experienced, and I've ran races in 3rd world countries...

Not sure if it was short sightedness, ignorance or laziness to why this happened the way it did. Really poor planning.