It’s 1956 and we’re bouncing along route 15 in our ‘54 Ford wagon headed to Aunt Rose and Uncle Alcide’s farm in St Johnsbury for a late afternoon Thanksgiving feast. The farmhouse is primitive as were the hardscrabble lives of our aunt and uncle who are still managing the farm in their old age. An [...]
Just as Vermont farms are under threat from forces outside their control, so too are many of our sacred cows. Among them are post-employment benefits for teachers and state employees, pension systems as we knew them in the latter half of the last century, academic tenure, local control as we imagine it, journalism as we [...]
I learned with sadness this week that my former employer, Dike Blair, had died. I had visited him on his 90th birthday several months earlier at his home in Middlebury where, in 1949, he started The Vermont Book Shop. Though he looked frail, with a small throw blanket on his lap, he sat upright in [...]
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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
November 11, 2009 