![]() ![]() I would come home from college and stay there, and I would live there in the summers. That one, that cabin, it was just standing on some birch stumps and some piled up stones. RM: Yeah – no, we built this – so this cabin, when I was 16, this was just woods and my dad and I built – do you see that cabin that’s over there in the woods now? We built that right where this is. And so far, three of us from the next generation are doing that too.īC: So the land that this house is on was forest that you knocked out to… or was this an existing building? So basically, my grandparents bought this piece of land and most of their kids stuck around and homesteaded here. My mom's farm stand is right around the corner my parents live through the woods in that direction my aunt and uncle live through the woods that direction my cousin lives that direction my aunt and my brother live up the road. And so their farmhouse is up the hill from here. And it was - they got 300 acres for like twenty five hundred dollars or something. ![]() My grandparents bought this chunk of land in 1951. I think it ought to be good.īC: So – I guess here’s a good place to start: where are we right now? Do I need to be close to the microphone? Close-ER to the microphone?īC: I don’t know… this microphone is new to me, but the lines are jumping up and down when you speak, which is promising. The Berkshires and… Tokyo.īC: Oh yeah, sorry, we’re recording now – fortunately we caught all the Mocha Joe’s material. RM: I mean, I guess sometimes you see it in the Berkshires. RM: I think they used to have one in Keene, years ago. Is there even a second Mocha Joe’s location? Or is it just that one downtown, and then this intercontinental coffee pipeline? TG: Yes – “If you want, I can make this happen,” and I guess they were like “OK.” So now it's happening. He's from Japan, and he approached Mocha Joe’s and said… well, he comes from this big business family and he said.īC: “Would you like to start a global empire?” TG: Well, as it turns out – I found out just this morning – one of my students, my former songwriting students, is the one making this happen. Tyler Gibbons: Yeah, this is crazy– apparently now you see fancy cafes in Tokyo serving Mocha Joe’s!īen Cosgrove: What, seriously? They just ship it from like, Brattleboro to Tokyo? They have this whole Asian boom, right, Ty? Robin MacArthur: Yeah, we were just reading about Mocha Joe’s, actually – I used to work at Mocha Joe’s all through high school, but they're like worldwide now. Brattleboro isn’t far away at all from the region where I’d grown up, and I’d spent a lot of time there, which is why this conversation begins with the three of us raving about a local coffee shop. (This was an early one and I was still getting the hang of this, okay?)Īnyway, the area where Robin and Ty live is just a dozen miles or so upland from Brattleboro, the southeastern Vermont city on the Connecticut River. So the final part of this transcript comes from a voice memo that I recorded immediately afterwards, in which I tried to sum that last bit up for the record. One – ahem – special feature of this interview comes from the fact that I inexplicably stopped recording, for no apparent reason, just before the best parts of our conversation occurred. More about Robin's work is at her website, here, and you can see a schedule of her upcoming readings here. Both books hit on something very essential about life in rural Vermont, and she alludes a little bit to the first book in our talk here. It was followed within a year by her debut novel, Heart Spring Mountain, which is similarly great and has been similarly received. This interview took place about one millisecond before Robin hit upon some considerable and well-deserved success: shortly after we talked, her short story collection Half Wild was released, and it quickly went on to win critical acclaim and prestigious awards. ![]()
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