To the Editor,
It was so nice to read the article about the
Pratt Refuge on Ward Hill that was donated by my Bisbee cousin, Chris Pratt.
Growing up in Waitsfield, she was known by her given name, Eleanor Bisbee, and she was two years older than I was! I guess she didn't like the name Eleanor, because sometime during her early years, she decided to call herself "Chris". She graduated from Montpelier High School in 1952, I believe, two years before I did. Originally, she lived at what many remember as "BisMay Farm, at the corner of Route 100 and Route 100B in Waitsfield. Their farm was across the river from ours, on the North Road, the Dan Bisbee Red Round Barn Farm. When her father, John Bisbee, Jr., had a heart attack, they moved to Moretown to a white house right before Route 100B crosses the Winooski River into Middlesex.
Five brothers grew up in the Waitsfield Bisbee tribe. She was a descendant of the John Bisbee tribe, and I am a descendant of the Daniel R. Bisbee family. Although I didn't know her in her later years, it is great to know that she married well, to a cousin of one of the other John Bisbee tribe, I was told, and was able to give back to the Mad River Valley where we all had our start. And the land is totally accessible, I learned.
Perhaps I can go over and view some of those birds, now that I have moved back to Central Vermont, at Chestnut Place in Berlin, Vermont.
Mary Alice Bisbee
Berlin, Vermont
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