When I was young in the middle of the last century in Morrisville, Greaves Dairy delivered two scratched glass bottles filled with delicious opal-colored cream, floating on fresh whole milk twice weekly. Today, I stop at Lantman’s in Hinesburg and grab a plastic jug of Booth Brothers”bth-free” milk and split. Occasionally, when we have city [...]
When I was very young, we read about national and international events weeks after they occurred. Signal events in the Korean War, advances in nuclear science, or the discovery of a rare tribe came into our home and consciousness weeks after they occurred — usually in Life, Look or Time Magazine. We heard headlines on [...]
Nothing works for ever. Things run down and need repair. Aspects lose their utility. Sometimes they must be overhauled. Vermont has reached that point in two critical areas. One is the architecture of government agencies and two is our tax code. Let me express my bias from the outset so you can either continue or [...]
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"Bill Schubart’s Vermont stories of a mostly-forgotten time and place are fresh,authentic, funny in places and sad in others. He knows his corner of the GreenMountains inside out and writes with honesty and grace about its people."
— Howard Frank Mosher, author of Disappearances, Mary Blythe, and On Kingdom Mountain
March 03, 2009 