About Broker Bill Sahlman
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Bill Sahlman was born in Barre, Vermont. My younger years growing up in Vermont were in a school that had 8 classes in 4 rooms. In my graduation class from 8th grade their were about 100 kids from the Barre Town School system. These were scattered out in 4 different locations around the city of Barre. The graduation class had 10%of the class made up of twins. 5 sets with 3 of those sets coming from my school with a class of 20.

Life in Vermont was very enjoyable. Winter were spent hunting rabbits or skiing. Sugarbush in Warren, Vt.was just being built and weekends training was run thru the Eastern Mtn. Ski Association in Stowe. Many weekend were spent skiing on the Morse Farm outside of Montpelier.Today the Morse Farm is nationally known for their Sugar Shack. If youget a chance to go, stop and say hello to Burr and his family. It is well worth the trip. Burr and his siblings are the grand children of Senator George Aiken.

The Senator was quite instrumental in our move from Vermont at the age of 14. My father was a very involved in the running of the Washington Electric Cooperative in E. Montpelier, Vt. Because of his knowledge, Senator Aiken recommended him to President John Kennedy to become the head of the International Cooperative Development Program in the Agency for International Development. This is how we ended up in junior high school in Arlington, Virginia.

Moving from a school of 60to a junior high school of 1,500 was very trumatic. However, being atwin certainly helped us to get acquainted. The high school years were fast and exciting. Class mates included the sisters of Katie Kouric and lots of senator's and congressman's children. Interesting, was the fact that some of kids who had lived there all their lives had never been to the Washington Monument or the museums, etc. We use to do it all. Jazz concerts under the Lincoln Memorial were especially fun in the summer.

Graduation from high school I started college at Utah State University. My program was in Landscape Architecture but my real avocation was skiing at Park City and Alta on the weekends. The vacations were spent at Jackson Hole and Sun Valley or going off to California with friends.Traveling thought Las Vegas and Reno in the 60's was quite different from today. Of course the arch over entrance to Reno has not changed.During the middle of my junior year, I decided I needed a change and transferred to the University of Massachusetts. Little did I know at the time that all of the freshman classes at Utah which were waived would be required to graduate in Massachusetts. So as a senior I became a freshman all over again. So once again I decided I needed some outside entertainment. Thus I became a cheerleader for my senior year.This allowed us to front row seats at every game. Basketball was especially exciting because Dr. J. was just getting started with basketball career. Senior year ended early because of the Kent State massacre and I moved back to Virginia for the summer.

The summer ended and I packed up and headed west to Squaw Valley,California. The next 4 years were spent working in the restaurant business and just enjoying the life. My older brother Frank came tovisit and has been there ever since. If you happen to be in Sqauw, he can be found at the INN SHOP. The shop only rents skis as they closed the retail shop some years ago. Skis can be rented often times up into June.

Knowing that without luck or money, I would never get ahead I packed up one day and headed East to Virginia.I was fortunate to get on with the subway constrution and eventually found the business that I knew suited me best. I kept seeing these people renovating house on Capital Hill and just knew I wanted to do that. My first house was bought down the street from Howard University.The mayor liver around the corner and his house had a 24 hour armed guard. It was not the smartest choice but the neighbors were very good to me. And by the end of the year, with lots of yelling the drug pushers were no longer coming up the street. The next year I decided it might be safer if I was up on Capital Hill with all of the other guys. Amazingly enough I was never threatened or robbed in any of the locations that I worked and many of many friends were all of the time.

I was still skiing and of all of a sudden I met the woman who would be my wife. 26 years later we are still together, even after 19 moves. The early years were spent in Virginia, but when Jeremy was born we decided we would come back to Vermont. Stephanie came along 2 years later and was born here Upper Valley. Both kids grew up in Norwich, Vermont.Jeremy was a snowboarder, skateboarder and ski instructor. Jeremy went to Northeastern University in Boston and recently moved to Santa  Monica, California where he works as a Computer Animation programmer.Stephanie graduated last year from the University of Vermont. During college she spent every summer on the road. Traveling across country twice by herself to jobs in Colorado, to traveling all over Europe one summer. Part of one summer was spent in Cuba. Today she is working with Americorp in Arkansas. Her specialty is disaster relief and so she was  in Florida during the hurricane season and then to So Carolina in January for the train wreck.

My wife Peggy and I  are very proud of our children and honestly believe their growing up on the farm in Norwich made them what they are today. The life in Vermont ends to make kids independent and not afraid to take risk. It is a good life even with the ever changing environment. Lots of people have moved here over the last 25 years. All and all, I think it is good for Vermont and New Hampshire. If you make the choice to come here, let us here at C-21 Energy Shield Realty be of assistance to you. I am sure you will be glad you did.

Bill Sahlman, President