My father taught me to be on time. Being late was considered arrogant and implied that my time was somehow worth more than other people’s. On my grade school report card, there was a column for “absent” and a column for “tardy.” If I was not in homeroom at 8 AM, I was tardy…period. You [...]
Ten years ago, Vermont’s largest employer with revenues in the low billions was having severe difficulties balancing its budget. The imbalance was in the tens of millions of dollars and the board was deadlocked in its debates about whether to retain the many products and services offered by the enterprise and simply raise prices, 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
May 05, 2009 