In these opening days of the new decade, I am haunted by Yeats’ ominous stanza in his poem The Second Coming: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the [...]
If you go to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s website and click on “Reports” and type in the word “outcomes,” you’ll get a free copy of a report entitled “Reframing Responsibility for Wellbeing Outcomes.” The report was written by Con Hogan and Dave Murphy. Hogan lives in Plainfield. Murphy now lives in Washington DC where [...]
The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College is the formal name of UVM. It has served Vermonters for two centuries and now faces difficult choices. The strategic ambiguity of UVM’s effort to both compete as a “public ivy” with other liberal arts and sciences universities, and to maintain its status as an agricultural land-grant [...]
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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
January 01, 2010 