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Where Does the Wild Goose Go?
Fifteen pithy, humorous, and heartwarming autobiographical pieces describe either trips Willem Lange has taken--to Alaska, France, Texas, and elsewhere--or, in a metaphorical sense, the long journey of his own life. As always, embedded unobtrusively within his tales, are profound ruminations on life and death, love, nature, and God.
"I have noticed how much my joy in people has run as a bright thread through the whole fabric of my life," he explains. "The stories in this collection are about some of those people who in the last fifty years have brightened or darkened--but always enlarged--my life. They are my constant companions on the luminous little brooks of memory."
"I have noticed how much my joy in people has run as a bright thread through the whole fabric of my life," he explains. "The stories in this collection are about some of those people who in the last fifty years have brightened or darkened--but always enlarged--my life. They are my constant companions on the luminous little brooks of memory."
120 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2001
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About the author
Willem Lange
12 books11 followersFrom 1968 to 1972 Will directed the Dartmouth Outward Bound Center. From 1972 until his retirement in 2007, he was a building and remodeling contractor in Hanover. He's an adopted member of the Dartmouth Class of 1957.
In 1981 he began writing a weekly column, A Yankee Notebook, which appears in several New England newspapers. He's a commentator or host for Vermont Public Radio and both Vermont and New Hampshire Public Television. His annual readings of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol began in 1975 and continue unabated. He's published several audio recordings and five books and received an Emmy nomination for one of his pieces on Vermont Public Television.
In 1973 Will founded the Geriatric Adventure Society, a group of outdoor enthusiasts whose members have skied the 200-mile Alaska Marathon, climbed in Alaska, the Andes, and Himalayas, bushwhacked on skis through northern New England, and paddled rivers north of the Arctic Circle.
He and his wife, Ida, who is the proprietor of a kitchen design business, have been married since 1959. After forty years in New Hampshire, they moved recently to East Montpelier, Vermont. They have three children and four grandchildren."
In 1981 he began writing a weekly column, A Yankee Notebook, which appears in several New England newspapers. He's a commentator or host for Vermont Public Radio and both Vermont and New Hampshire Public Television. His annual readings of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol began in 1975 and continue unabated. He's published several audio recordings and five books and received an Emmy nomination for one of his pieces on Vermont Public Television.
In 1973 Will founded the Geriatric Adventure Society, a group of outdoor enthusiasts whose members have skied the 200-mile Alaska Marathon, climbed in Alaska, the Andes, and Himalayas, bushwhacked on skis through northern New England, and paddled rivers north of the Arctic Circle.
He and his wife, Ida, who is the proprietor of a kitchen design business, have been married since 1959. After forty years in New Hampshire, they moved recently to East Montpelier, Vermont. They have three children and four grandchildren."
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June 27, 2020
A down to Earth collection of short stories infused with insights that I've enjoyed over the years.
September 21, 2019
We were in Vermont for my sister and BIL's 60th anniversary in Sept. 20019. This was a family reunion that my cousin had arranged. She found storyteller Willem Lange and invited him to "entertain" with his stories after dinner. I am not sure how the book was aquired, but there are a few more that the family is passing around.
This book has 15 short stories so it is very easy to read. It was fun for me to know we had met him and prehaps have seen him on PBS. We were never quite sure how "true" the stories he told us were, but this one has a nonfiction library call number. Just read and enjoy.
This book has 15 short stories so it is very easy to read. It was fun for me to know we had met him and prehaps have seen him on PBS. We were never quite sure how "true" the stories he told us were, but this one has a nonfiction library call number. Just read and enjoy.
December 6, 2021
Interesting stories
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