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With brand new cartoons by Don Hooper, and a foreword by Jeff Danziger, I Could Hardly Keep from Laughing is a potpourri of art and words documenting how Vermont humor has evolved over 150 years. While re-telling some stories from previous collections, the authors gather together more than a dozen modern humorists in this exuberant, charming, and affectionate history of Vermont humor.

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Mares has combed the archives, Hooper has scribbled up some characters. Slathered in irreverence, and aided by a score of other wit-sters, their book gives you the real deal of Vermont's rich history of humor. -Anne Galloway, VTDigger.org founder and president What a delightful respite from the woes of Washington to read this quirky treasury of humor in Vermont! Mares catalogues well-known and novel tales of Vermont's well-known and unknown, while Hooper brightens the pages with over 100 cartoons that will bring chuckles to all but the grouchiest. -Congressman Peter Welch When Hooper and Mares got together to write I Could Hardly Keep from Laughing, they made sure you won't be able to either. Most writers have to CRAFT titles for their books; Hooper and Mares ARE their own titles. -Frank Bryan, University of Vermont professor and humorist

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"Don Hooper has two degrees from Harvard and has been a Peace Corps teacher in Botswana; Vermont back-to-lander; goat milker; farmers' marketeer; dirt worshiper; tree hugger; legislator; and Secretary of State. His partner Allison is a co-founder of Vermont Creamery. They live in Brookfield and enjoy time with their grandkids Olcott and Weston, who call Don ""Mothusi"" which means ""helper,"" the nickname his students gave him in Botswana. Bill Mares has been a reporter-photographer, state legislator, and high school teacher. Raised in Texas and educated at Harvard, he has authored or co-authored 17 books, including, with Ross Conrad and others, a history of beekeeping in Vermont, ""The Land of Milk and Honey"" (Green Place Books, 2020). He lives in Burlington with his wife of 48 years, Chris Hadsel. They have two sons."

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