Description
Emmy award-winning storyteller and beloved host of NHPTV’s Windows to the Wild, Willem Lange, presents a new collection of favorite tales from the wilds of New England and beyond. Words from the Wild is a celebration of great milestones for Willem Lange and his work:
•The best columns from over thirty years of A Yankee Notebook, Lange’s column is featured in several New England newspapers.
•The tenth anniversary of the award-winning series on New Hampshire Public Television, Windows to the Wild
•The 80th birthday of Willem Lange
Willem Lange holds the mantra, “do something each week you’ve never done before.” He shares with us some of his best experiences connecting with fascinating new people, places, and to the wild itself. Words from the Wild inspires us to get out there and live.
Willem Lange has worked as an Adirondack guide, a preacher, a bartender, a construction laborer, a cab driver, a bob-sled run announcer, a bookkeeper, a ranch hand, a high-school English teacher, a carpenter, a contractor, and from 1968 to 1972 he directed Dartmouth College’s Outward Bound Center. For more than thirty years he has been writing a weekly column, A Yankee Notebook, which appears in newspapers all over New England. He is a regular commentator on Vermont Public Television and Vermont Public Radio, and the host of New Hampshire Public Television’s award-winning series, Windows to the Wild.
