Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Comments at Jim Morse’s Celebration of Life
We’re grateful to be here today to honor the memory of a dear friend and an extraordinary human being. I won’t replay for you Jim’s pioneering resume in Vermont and...
Homage aux soeurs
While visiting Québec City last week for the Fêtes de la nouvelle France, we were wandering through Place Royale surrounded by early Québec re-enactors in period pantaloons, rough linen shirts...
Chaos and Gratitude
An unavoidable part of this particular holiday season is the need to survey the wreckage of last year, and the staggering damage we and our elected leaders have wrought on our...
Progress and Change
I’m having breakfast with a friend who has just returned from yet another country where he routinely explains to presidents and kings how to establish functioning telecommunications networks, or to...
Dike Blair and his Vermont Book Shop
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,...
Ah, Mother
It’s time to think about Mother again. And then will come Father’s Day. For many of us, it’s bittersweet to revisit our mothers and fathers, either in person or in...
Talk to me…..
When I was a cub scout in Morrisville in 1953, one of my merit badge projects was to learn Morse code. Another was talking into orange juice cans connected by...
A Winter Elegy
Just as most progress is incremental, so too are our losses. We rarely see what we’re losing until it’s gone. We may see a dying butternut tree without knowing of...
New Grandfather….
There are many events in our lives that forge us as human beings, but in general, childhood play, early work, and exposure to death are among the most important. As...
Jolly Olde England
On our occasional visits to England, we’ve taken up renting Landmark Trust properties, which are considerably less expensive than hotels, especially when friends and family join in. We usually rent...
UVM Quarterly Essay: Apppreciation of Exeter Professor George Bennett
BILL SCHUBART ’68Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence. On the strength of a sonnet I had written at Exeter, I was...
The Spirit of Toys
In the early 50s, I remember sitting in my PJs under a spruce Christmas tree. I’m opening a pile of presents from my mother. These are the presents my mother never...
