“I sleep like many Vermont boys, without too much clothing at night. I’m not a big pajama person. The bottom line is: The bears were dressed better than I and they could have done some real damage.” “I sleep like
“I sleep like many Vermont boys, without too much clothing at night. I’m not a big pajama person. The bottom line is: The bears were dressed better than I and they could have done some real damage.”
— Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, who was chased and nearly caught by a bear while he was trying to shoo four of them away from his backyard birdfeeders.
“He climbed aboard that and spent the next five hours waist deep, or occasionally deeper, in 28-degree water,” — Quincy Williams, now 80, talking about his father, Richard Norris Williams II, who survived the sinking of the Titanic by finding a lifeboat.
