View a selection of Will's favorite people, places and things from - present View the show. Will would love to hear your feedback or ideas about one of his books, readings, stories, talks or commentaries. I laundered the sheets and pillowcases in the guest room, hung a fresh towel in the guest bathroom, and even dressed up my end of the house, making up the bed with the flannel winter sheets and wrangling a new denim duvet cover over the old comforter.
There was a slight fly in the ointment: The kitchen sink drain was slowing to a crawl, but I could live with that for a few days. With no rain in the forecast, I could see my guest and I zooming up over Smugglers Notch in the roadster, calling ahead from the notch for an outside table at the restaurant in Jeffersonville, and after lunch, tooling south past Mount Elmore in time to take Kiki for her walk in Hubbard Park.
Then crackers, cheese, and a chatty drink before dinner at a local restaurant. A perfect plan. Half an hour later, as we approached the Waterbury exit at I we found exiting traffic backed up half a mile onto the interstate.
Born in Albany, New York in , Lange was instilled with a strong sense of exploration and discovery from an early age. So I got outdoors a little bit, and then the neighbor across the street asked if I wanted to go to a Boy Scout meeting.
He immediately fell in love with the Boy Scouts, and it fueled his adventurous spirit for years. However, his time in New York was cut short in Eventually the juvenile corrections system decreed that I would be going away to a school of either the state's or my parents' choosing," Lange says. I've lived pretty much in New England ever since.
Lange's love of nature continued to grow in his new surroundings, and he joined outing clubs in high school and college.
After earning his bachelor's degree in , he taught high school English, quenching his thirst for adventure during summers as an Outward Bound instructor.
From to , he served as the director of the Dartmouth Outward Bound Center. Lange's tenure at Dartmouth inspired him to form the Geriatric Adventure Society in We thought 'Gee, there's life in the old gang yet! Let's do this every year! The Geriatric Adventure Society is still going strong, and has splintered into different sub-groups.
Your tastes change as your abilities change. Will is also an accomplished writer. His feature column, A Yankee Notebook, focuses on his experiences and his take on various issues. Along with his column, Lange has written nine books spanning a variety of genres. His newest book, Words from the Wild, includes 25 columns that relate to his experiences on the Windows to the Wild shows, as well as photos.
Windows to the Wild airs Wednesdays at p. For more information on the Green Alliance, click here. More …. Will's latest slides ». Meet the Geriatric Adventure Society —a group of staunch outdoor enthusiasts whose members have skied the 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…. Listen to an mp3 snippet from The White-Footed Mouse.
Willem Lange has lived in New England for over fifty years, working everywhere from the lumber woods in the Adirondacks and the coastal islands of Maine to the ivied halls of Dartmouth College. All through his travels he has picked up stories — hundreds of them — about this unique place and the complicated, reticent, dry-humoured people we call Yankees.
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