The Lamoille Stories II
The Lamoille Stories II

Author: BIll Schubart

Publisher: Magic Hill Press LLC

Published: 2014-11-15

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 0989712133

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A wholly new collection of Lamoille Stories from Vermont author, Bill Schubart. Many of the original characters in the 2008 edition like Jeeter, Pete, Theron and Lila are back in this new set of stories. · Hiding his beer from his wife, Willy discovers that if he buries a 12 oz. bottle of Old Fitzgerald beer in the woods, in time it’ll grow into a quart. · Auctioneer, Art Messier, comes unhinged when, at the end of his auction, his nemesis Pete and his boys bid up the value on an end-lot box of junk. · David unwillingly discovers the mysteries of the female sex when he loses his VW keys. · Eugenie raises pigs, but ever since childhood has dreaded the chaos of slaughter, until she cooks up the ultimate anesthetic send-off for her pets. · After 60 years of marriage, Theron’s wife Lila succumbs to diabetes on their farm. Theron defies local funeral traditions and, with the help of his friend Dr. Phil, lays Lila to her final rest. “Lamoille Stories II” extends Bill Schubart’s collection of rural Vermont tales – some uproarious, some heartbreaking – about the characters that enriched his early years there.

The Lamoille Stories
The Lamoille Stories

Author: Bill Schubart

Publisher: Bill Schubart

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781935052104

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Every year on the Fourth of July, Jeeters wife Lou struts in the town parade wearing suspenders made of jumper cables with a tow chain around her waist. Those in the knowwhich means everyone in townchuckle at Lous silent commentary on her husbands skill as an automotive mechanic. But Jeeter has a different perspective: Thats my wife right there, he tells a stranger. She knows cars. Author Bill Schubart brings to life the friends and characters of his native Lamoille County, where in the late 1950s and early 1960s, life was lived close to the earth and often against the grain. Schubarts collection of twenty-two stories captures Vermont in its transition from an enclave of hill farms and small towns where everyone knew your grandfather to a place where vehicles bearing license plates from away mix with hippie vans filled with born-again Vermonters getting back to the land]until snowfall. Its a time and place where the Jeeters of The Lamoille Stories rub elbows with the ladies of the Uplift Club, all to the fiddle accompaniment of Qubcois music played by people whose conversations often weave French and English together in a single sentence. Schubarts full-hearted and compassionate evocation of this Vermont is by turns poignant, funny and savory. The stories give readers a good excuse to stay up too late to discover how Wyvis will circumvent the new Vermont prohibition on having more than three junk cars in your yard or how Charlie is going to get Edgar to pay him for his new chimney. Schubarts thoroughly enjoyable short story collection is as finely etched as the frost crystals on your winter window. Amusez-vous bien! Bill Schubarts Vermont stories of a mostly-forgotten time and place arefresh, authentic, funny in places and sad in others. He knows his corner of the Green Mountains inside out and writes with honesty and grace about its people. Howard Frank Mosher, author of Disappearances, Mary Blythe, and On Kingdom Mountain

Put Your Head Down and Charge
Put Your Head Down and Charge

Author: Andy Johnston

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1622125517

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From elementary school to young adulthood, Luke and Manuel are always in conflict. Even from their school days, Manuel is determined to be the big man in town. He becomes obsessed with getting back at Luke, the only hindrance to his dreams. Luke, a skinny introvert, wants only to protect his sister, girlfriend and teacher from harm. As their final showdown approaches, Luke is dealing with nightmares about Manuel's threats and the time he spent as a juvenile in an adult jail for an assault he didn't commit. After Luke causes the death of a criminal named Harvey to protect his sister, Manuel plots revenge on Luke and his loved ones. But first Manuel wants to control the prostitution and moonshine business left behind by Harvey. Put Your Head Down and Charge: Deadly Conflict on the Ridge is a powerful novel about revenge and payback.

Shands Family History
Shands Family History

Author: Wayland Arthur Shands

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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Thomas Shands (fl.1676-1685) emigrated from Scotland to Jamestown. Virginia, and was secretary to James Minge, clerk of the House of Burgesses. Thomas married Frances Harrison before 1685. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Colorado and elsewhere.

The Delight Makers
The Delight Makers

Author: Catherine L. Albanese

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2023-01-17

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0226823342

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An ambitious history of desire in Anglo-American religion across three centuries. The pursuit of happiness weaves disparate strands of Anglo-American religious history together. In The Delight Makers, Catherine L. Albanese unravels a theology of desire tying Jonathan Edwards to Ralph Waldo Emerson to the religiously unaffiliated today. As others emphasize redemptive suffering, this tradition stresses the “metaphysical” connection between natural beauty and spiritual fulfillment. In the earth’s abundance, these thinkers see an expansive God intent on fulfilling human desire through prosperity, health, and sexual freedom. Through careful readings of Cotton Mather, Andrew Jackson Davis, William James, Esther Hicks, and more, Albanese reveals how a theology of delight evolved alongside political overtures to natural law and individual liberty in the United States.