Willem Lange
CommentatorWillem Lange is a retired remodeling contractor, writer and storyteller who lives in East Montpelier, Vermont.
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My first month in secondary school was an English language boot camp. The drill instructor was Thomas Donovan; we still call him TD. He assigned essays鈥�
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I'd hate to think that with all the attention we're paying this year to Civil War battles of 150 years ago 鈥� Cold Harbor, the Wilderness, Atlanta 鈥� we鈥�
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The silver maple likes to get its feet wet. It grows in groves along silty river banks, hanging over the water. When it dies, or is undermined by the鈥�
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In midsummer, Vermont is as green as it鈥檚 possible to be. But when I turn into my driveway, a softer, lighter green always stokes old memories for me.鈥�
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In the middle of a July heat wave, some friends and I picked our way through Devils Gulch in the Town of Eden, Vermont. The deer flies were fierce, and鈥�
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Mark Twain is said to have written, 鈥淭ravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these鈥�
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I glanced out my office window at seven this morning. A dozen large wild turkeys were lined up on the far side of the yard, feathers all fluffed up in the鈥� -
Those of us who were once involved in winter sports 鈥� skiing, skating, bobsledding 鈥� might easily dismiss the spectacle of the Olympics. The starting line鈥�
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Some years ago I wrote an article for Yankee Magazine about termites and carpenter ants, and came across a word I鈥檇 never seen before 鈥� cryptobiotic.Our鈥�
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"Favor Johnson" is the story of a hound named Hercules, a flatlander doctor, homemade fruitcake and the real spirit of Christmas.Snow was falling softly鈥�
