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Bill Herrick
has a simple philosophy, "Do everything you can in this life. Do it for
the sheer joy it can bring you, or don't do it at all."
Bill has had a long career as a creative
person. Prior to taking up wood carving, he produced, wrote and directed
more than 200 documentary, training and promotional films, numerous
industrial shows, all the while sharing in the management of the agency he
helped found in 1955, when he was twenty-nine years old.
In 1973, Bill left the Big Apple, the day
he realized the fun had gone out of his work. He and his wife, Phylis
Dunn, took up life on the banks of the Battenkill River, and ended up, as
he puts it, "with a happy life working in wood, stone, and bronze, and
writing poems just about every day of the 26 years we've lived in
Vermont."
Prior to joining Big Sky Carvers, Bill
and his wife owned and successfully operated a retail store and an art
gallery. Bill has published two books of poetry, "Carving Myself" and "In
the Vicinity of Rivers." |
