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Willem Lange was born in 1935. A child of deaf parents, he grew up speaking sign language and first came to New England to prep school in 1950 as an alternative to reform school in his native New York State.
During a few absences from New England, Will earned a degree in only nine years at the College of Wooster in Ohio. In between those scattered semesters, he worked as a ranch hand, Adirondack guide, preacher, construction laborer, bobsled run announcer, assembly line worker, cab driver, bookkeeper, and bartender. After graduating in 1962, he taught high school English in northern New York, filling in summers as an Outward Bound instructor. More…
Read Will
Read A Yankee Notebook Will's weekly column. Read a short story or excerpt, or buy one of Willem Langes's five published books Tales from the Edge of the Woods, Where Does the Wild Goose Go? …
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Hear Will
Listen to Will's recent commentaries on Vermont Public Radio (VPR). Listen to a story snippet from Will's CD, Not Love at First Sight: Stories from New England, or buy the CD online… » more…
See Will
On television: Wildlife Journal (NHPTV), or Rural Free Delivery (VTPTV). Buy his video: Tales from the North Country, or check out Will's new Photo Album and Slideshow
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Will's newest photo album and slideshow posted
January 28, 2009 -- View photos of Will’s favorite people, places and things from 1959 - present… from the Torngat mountains in northern Labrador, which Jacques Cartier called “the land God gave to Cain”, to a beautiful Spring day in 1959 in the Adirondacks, to running rapids down the bony Payne River, Ungava Peninsula in the far north coast of Nunavik, Quebec, Canada, to a mountain in northwest Iceland (considered by the Icelanders to be the mouth of Hell)… to the Cliffs of Moher on the west coast of Ireland. Meet the Geriatric Adventure Society —a group of staunch 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…
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Album 1from A beautiful spring day in 1959... to a Sub-Arctic Bushwhack in northern New Hampshire, and More... |
Album 2a brook trout and a green beadhead Woolly Bugger, the most enthusiastic characters you’ll ever meet, and More... |
Album 3northern New Hampshire, northern Labrador, high in the Adirondacks, and More... |
Not Love at First Sight: Stories from New England (CD)
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. The Not Love at First Sight CD is a collection of nine of these tales read aloud by the author, a master storyteller.
Books by Willem Lange
- Tales from the Edge of the Woods (1998)
- Okay, Let's Try It Again (1999)
- John and Tom (2001)
- Where Does the Wild Goose Go? (2001)
- Intermittent Bliss:
- Reflections on a Long Love Affair (2003)
