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EAST DORSET â The Vermont State Senate and House of Representatives have passed a concurrent house resolution honoring East Dorset resident Alice Wolf Gilborn for her outstanding literary achievements.
The resolution, introduced by Rep. Linda Joy Sullivan of Dorset, recognizes Gilborn for a lifetime of work.
âBe it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives: That the General Assembly honors Alice Wolf Gilborn of Dorset for her outstanding literary achievements,â the resolution reads in part.
Gilborn, who will be 85 years old March 12, said that she was honored by the resolution.
Elated and humbled
The Vermont State Senate and House of Representatives have passed a concurrent house resolution honoring East Dorset resident Alice Wolf Gilborn for her outstanding literary achievements.
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A few months ago, I received a book as a gift from a friend in Vermont. The jacket was inscribed to me, “My Dear Christian,” and after a few comments concluded, “… and that it will entice you back to these verdant shores. Signed, Nessmuk.” This is mysterious. Nessmuk, as some may know, was the pen name of George Washington Sears, a late-19th-century tourism writer for the outdoor magazine Forest & Stream. He was born almost 200 years ago, in 1821, and died in 1890, making his signature unlikely on this new (copyright 1993) copy of “Canoeing the Adirondacks with Nessmuk: The Adirondack Letters of George Washington Sears.”