The Lamoille Stories II

by Bill Schubart, Ruth Sylvester (Editor), Claire Hancock (As Told by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780989712132
Publisher:	Magic Hill Press LLC
Publication date:	09/02/2014
Pages:	134
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Bill Schubart has lived with his family in Vermont since 1947. Educated locally and at Exeter, Kenyon, and the University of Vermont. He is fluent in French language and culture, which he taught before entering communications as an entrepreneur. He co-founded Philo Records and is the author of the highly successful Lamoille Stories (2008), a collection of Vermont tales. His bibliography includes three short story collections and four novels. His latest novel is Lila & Theron distributed by Simon and Schuster. He has served on many boards and currently chairs the Vermont College of Fine Arts, known for its writing programs. He speaks extensively on the media and the arts, and writes about Vermont in fiction, humor, and opinion pieces. He is also a regular public radio commentator and blogger. He is the great, great nephew of the renowned photographer Alfred Stieglitz and lives in Vermont, with his wife Katherine, also a writer.

Table of Contents

Willy's Beer Garden 11

The Final Bid 18

Jeeter Buries His Parents 24

Mr. Leonard's Two-holer 30

The Invisible Fence 36

Dog Camp 41

Lost Key 47

Bakin' for the Bacon 54

Forcier Farm 56

Jeeter Gets His Buck 62

Sphincter 68

Personal Injury Setytlement 75

Lila's Bucket 82

Lila's Death 89

Lila's Burial 95

Good Fences 101

Parish Secretary 103

Heavy Equipment 108

Morrisville's First Civil Union 116

Whiskey of tyhe Gods 122

Dead Coon 127

Editorial Reviews

"Schubart's 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. Schubart's thoroughly enjoyable short story collection is as finely etched as the frost crystals on your winter window. Amusez-vous bien!" - Dick Drysdale

"Bill Schubart's Vermont stories of a mostly-forgotten time and place are fresh, 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

"Bill Schubart's stories are Vermont's answer to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: larger than life, triumphantly over-the-top, by turns erudite and savagely, raucously funny. No good soul, no matter how low on the social ladder, is beneath Schubart's fond notice; no lout, no matter how highly placed, escapes his lacerating wit. People drink in these stories, folks. They drink, and occasionally they damage their homes and cars and boots and lifelong local reputations as a result. But in Schubart's universe, such things happen, and such people remain loved. Laughed at certainly, but loved just the same." -- Philip Baruth, author of The X President

"These are fast becoming some of my favorite stories. Bill Schubart captures something of Vermont that many of us barely remember, and others may never experience. Each of The Lamoille Stories is a unique experience--lovingly told, with insight, pathos, and especially humor. You'll read them again and again." -- Joseph A. Citro, author of Passing Strange

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