Where I Have Been
How I Arrived In The Dartmouth/Sunapee/Upper Valley Area
How I like it Here
Born
in Lynn, Massachusetts, I was raised in the small upstate town of
Granville, New York, "Colored Slate Capitol Of The World," close to the
border of Vermont. After graduating from Granville High School, I
attended the State University of New York at Potsdam, majoring in music
education at SUNY Posdam's Crane School of Music. I later received a
Masters degree from Potsdam and spent a year of doctoral studies at
Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington.
As
a college student and then as a beginning public school music teacher, I
was a camp counselor at Camp Passumpsic on Lake Fairlee in Ely,
Vermont. I loved the beauty of Vermont and New Hampshire and was
drawm back to Camp Passumpsic for five summers. Our days off were
spent in Hanover, New Hampshire, home of Dartmouth College's lovely
campus green and the many stately trees lining Hanover's streets.
My
wife, Nancy and I moved permanently to the Upper
Valley/Dartmouth/Sunapee area in 1993 when I was offered a position as
Music Director at Lebanon High School and it really felt like I was
coming home. I now drive around Lake Fairlee occasionally. Camp
Passumpsic is no longer there but the spot still elicits fond memories.
We
were returning from Europe where I had been a full-time secondary
school music teacher for many years with the Department of Defense
Dependents Schools. My last teaching position "over there" was in
Berlin, Germany during the time that the infamous wall came crumbling
down and we, like so many others, helped in the process. Before that I
had taught in Livorno, Italy and the German communities of Munich,
Augsburg, Baumholder, and Ramstein. Our daughter was born in Italy and
our son in Munich.
Now
that I am a REALTORо, I am still involved in music. I've served as
music director for a number of North Country Community Theatre
productions summeer productions at the Lebanon Opera House including
"Pajama Game," "Brigadoon," "Pirates Of Penzance," "Fiddler On The
Roof," "Singin' In The Rain." What a fine group of dedicated musicians,
actors, tech and production staff people. I still play clarinet
occasionally and am Music Director of a fine choral group, the Bel
Canto Chamber Singers and in the summer of 2009 am singing in Opera
North's production of the opera, CARMEN. The arts are alive in the Upper
Valley.
Please
feel free to contact me for your real estate needs in Lebanon, Hanover,
or any community within an hour's drive of the Dartmouth College/Upper
Valley area. Regardless of whether I am working as a BUYER or as a
SELLER AGENT, I'll offer honest, attentive service.
My
experiences as a music educator with the Department of Defense
Dependents Schools in Europe helped me to better understand the needs of
people relocating to new areas. The military community members had to
move and adjust to new "home towns" every three years or less. The kids
in the schools arrived and departed all the time. The DoDDS teachers
developed a caring and supportive environment to try and help them
adjust to their new community.
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Hal Sheeler, NH VT Real Estate
603 643-2039 ext. 212
Relocation
services and home sales for physicians, teachers, engineers and others
coming to the Upper Connecticut River Valley area.
Vacation property sales in the Dartmouth/Upper Valley areas of Vermont and New Hampshire and in the Lake Sunapee area.
Some
of the communities that I cover: Lebanon, Hanover, Eastman, New London,
Sunapee, Norwich, Enfield, Canaan, Grafton, Lyme, Windsor, Woodstock,
Orford, Newbury, Killington, Springfield, Strafford, Wilmot, Andover,
Hartford, Hartland and others within about an hour's drive of Hanover.
