I got recently got a wonderful e-mail from Karen and Mark Rogers, farmers who kindly advised me on dairy farm practice while I was writing On Brassard’s Farm. They attended my April 12 reading in Montpelier with a sick, four-day-old lamb in the car. Naturally, as guests of honor,...
I didn’t write On Brassard’s Farm as social commentary – it’s a story that celebrates Vermont small farms and wild lands, romantic love, community, and just being alive. True, it’s set on a struggling dairy farm, and I depicted the hardships and uncertainties of that life. But as I...
I’m still just beginning to catch up with the “authoring” trade. I put the word in ironic, or dubious, quotes because my old friend Bill Lederer (author of The Ugly American and many other famous books) said — this was while I was still a guitarist and had never...