My name is Ed Dahlin and this web sight will tell you a lot about me and about Vermont and will give you some great links to what I think are very interesting sites which have helped me find a wealth of information in my travels on the Information Super Highway.
I live in the beautiful Southern Vermont town
of Newfane
and I am a retired printer/typesetter after working in the trade
for about 40 years. I started as an apprentice printer (known
in the trade as a "printer's devil) at a weekly
newspaper and finished my working days in Brattleboro
formatting manuscripts for books; text books, novels, all kinds
of books. The name of that company is Pagesetters.
The books were designed by professional designers one of whom
is a good friend of mine.
In ca. 1924, my father bought what was then
the Community House in East Middlebury, Vt., for $3,000! He converted
it into a small summer hotel by building a number of rooms in
what had been a big ballroom upstairs. He and my mother operated
the hotel in the summer time and went to a small town named Tangerine,
Florida, in the winter. My father bought an acre of land with
an orange grove on it and built a house He built the house all
by himself for my family to live in. I was born in that house
in 1926. My father died in 1934 when I was about 7 years old.
Then, while my brother and I were in the service in 1944, my mother
could no longer afford to keep the hotel and she sold it to a
Mr. Way, who changed the name to the "Waybury Inn."
And that is where the Newhart Connection comes in. When Bob Newhart
and his TV wife bought a hotel in the country on his TV program,
that is the hotel they bought! I had lived there from when I was
born to 1943 when I enlisted in the Navy. A lot of people saw
that hotel on TV!
I had a thalamic syndrome (stroke) on January 5, 1995. I have to type with one hand and that slows me down also, but it's like "I cried because I had no shoes; then I met a man who had no feet." More about stroke later.
