Yankee Notebook

Columnist and VPR commentator 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 director of Dartmouth College's Outward Bound Center. He is also the founder of the Geriatric Adventure Society. His latest book is Intermittent Bliss: Reflections on a Long Love Affair.