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About Me — Geoffrey Gevalt

I was a journalist for 33 years, ran a youth writing nonprofit for 12 and am now writing a novel to be published in early 2023. In April…

4 min readMar 22, 2022

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About Me — Geoffrey Gevalt

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My Father’s D-Day Story

How a series of coincidences gave us a window into my dad’s experience during the invasion of Normandy in 1944.

6 min readJun 6, 2024

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My Father’s D-Day Story

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The Gods Ate the Sun

My second “total” eclipse was a good deal different than the first: I knew about it!

3 min readMay 9, 2024

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The Gods Ate the Sun

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Finished!

Writing my first novel has been the most challenging — and most enjoyable — project of my life. It will be published, one way or another.

8 min readMar 15, 2024

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Finished!

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Are my followers on Medium real?

A comparison on one story finds far more engagement on Substack than here. That, Tony, is a problem that has gotten worse.

2 min readOct 19, 2023

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Are my followers on Medium real?

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Four years in …

Hiram Falls’ 9th revision is underway; the novel is nearly ‘finished.’ In this post, I share some of the things I am learning about…

8 min readOct 8, 2023

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Four years in …

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Meeting Dave — and Bad Beer

With a hiatus in the sugaring — too cold — a story from my life’s archive when I met one of the true town characters.

4 min readMar 10, 2023

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This is a picture of the inside of a maple sugarhouse with window and light coming in upper left, evaporator pan in center bottom and steam everywhere so’s you can barely make out that someone is at the other side, and there’s the wall of the evaporator and a strainer, up close.

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Making Making Syrup — The Start

A generous aunt gave me the means to purchase what I needed to turn my hobby into a springtime obsession.

3 min readMar 5, 2023

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Bluish gray photo of two maple trees with maple sap buckets on them during a snow storm. The ground is white, the background tree trunks kind of hazy and snow is piled on the lids of the buckets.

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What it’s like to wait

First-time novelist first waits for feedback, then waits for energy to revise, then tries to figure out how to retrieve the excitement.

9 min readMar 3, 2023

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What it’s like to wait

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Sugaring begins with buckets

The first in a series of stories about the obsessive art of making maple syrup in Vermont where the best syrup is made.

2 min readMar 1, 2023

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Sugaring begins with buckets

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Geoffrey Gevalt

Geoffrey Gevalt

Writer, photographer: https://geoffreygevalt.com. Novelist: https://geoffreygevalt.substack.com Mastodon: https://me.dm/@ggevalt

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