As we have learned over the centuries, when it comes to burning witches, it doesn’t really matter if you have burned a real witch or just someone who, in your fevered, partisan, and paranoid imagination, could easily become a witch in the future. It is the burning that is the message.
Over the next 50 years, Caroline and Sandy brought music and joy to thousands through performances, special gatherings, and sales of the traditional and contemporary folk recordings they produced.
For many years, he was a master craftsman furniture maker in Shaker and other furniture styles. One of his pieces was showcased in the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield and, for decades, he taught classes on woodworking in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Bill gave generously of himself to the community, serving as a West Stockbridge selectman, youth hockey coach, Little League baseball umpire, on the board of the local United Way and Chamber of Commerce, and on the vestry of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Stockbridge.