Hi. I'm John Vibber
I was born in central Massachusetts and have Yankee roots back to the Mayflower. I finished high school in Vermont and earned my science degrees at the UVM. In 1968 I found my first teaching job in a red wooden schoolhouse in Townshend, Vermont. I married that same year and soon learned to enjoy teaching and country kids. In 1971 we moved to Maine where I did a year of a fishery biology PhD program. I discovered that I preferred kids to fish and returned to teaching at Oakwood School in Poughkeepsie, New York where my daughter Jessica was born the following spring. We moved north three years later and took up residence in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom and stayed for a decade. In 1985 I started twenty years of science teaching at Mt. Abraham Union High School in Bristol, Vermont. I continued to teach and administrate until my retirement in spring 2005 when I moved to Burlington, Vermont.
I’ve loved language and fine writing since the 8th grade when I was convinced that I had invented the pun. My work life has always involved enlivening information and motivating my listeners. In my Bristol years, writing became increasingly important to my work.
When I retired I brought a wealth of impressions: a rucksack of tales from each village school and community. Just as these stories started to agitate for their freedom, I discovered that I enjoyed the creativity of writing fiction. Over the next few months I emancipated a few of the more lively yarns capturing them on paper as my first North Country mystery Shadow on Cant-dog Hill. Since that time many readers have urged me to write another North Country tale. I expect they will be pleased with Kingdom Come
