Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Lila & Theron: Seven Days Review
Lila & Theron Bill Schubart, Charles Michael Publishing, 192 pages. $19.95. To many children, this independence is a blessing; but Theron, already orphaned once, feels more alone. Clearly, Hinesburg’s Bill Schubart hasn’t...
Comments to Lamoille Family Center Annual Meeting – 6/20/18
Many thanks. It’s an honor to be invited home to be with you all tonight. I greatly appreciate the work you do on behalf of Lamoille County’s families and communities....
Elder College Memoir Assignment: Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time – Overture
OVERTURE For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not...
Hank Lambert Memoir: Horses Don’t Pull
Horses Don’t Pull Farm accidents happen all the time. There are so many things to trip over and fall down from in the barn, in the woods, in the hay...
From: The Chinese Kitten by Edna A. Brown 1922
AT THE BEACH The house where the Merrills lived in Westmore was a brown cottage, but it seemed large and like a palace when the children saw the shack at...
Clean Water
My favorite way to recover after a hot afternoon’s hard work has always been to chug down a quart of ice cold water from a Mason jar and then jump...
The Arts: Soul Food
Efforts to defund the National Endowment of the Arts are a quadrennial budget issue here at home. And in many countries, artists, like journalists, are censored, jailed, or even assassinated....
January Newsletter
Stories and News From Magic Hill January 2019 Vol.2, Issue 10 My New Year’s resolutions are just that… high hopes for a resolution to the bipolar weather patterns we’ve been...
Aretha Brings It All Home
As a student fascinated with recording technology, I had the privilege of interviewing for a job at Columbia Records when I was in my mid-twenties. I was first asked a...
A Tree Falls in our Woods
I love working in the woods and I’ve come to know all the great trees on our land. They’re like friends – the surviving American elm that looks like a...
Book Review: Horse-Drawn Yogurt by Peter Gould
Horse-Drawn Yogurt: Stories from Total Loss Farm By Peter Gould (Brattleboro: Green Writers Press, 2017 pp. 217, paper $19.95) I had no idea what to expect when I began reading Horse-Drawn Yogurt. My...
An Open Letter to the Vermont Legislature
Dear Legislators, First, thank you all for your willingness to serve your constituents and all Vermonters. You are appreciated by most of us. But please remember, you serve both the...
