"Bills Lumber" Movie
Thu, Feb 27
|Wardsboro
The public is invited to a free showing of “Bills Lumber,” a documentary about the last days of the Bills family’s beloved antique sawmill in Wardsboro, Vermont. Please RSVP to this event on the website or call the Library.
Time & Location
Feb 27, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Wardsboro, 170 Main St, Wardsboro, VT 05355, USA
About the Event
The 45-minute video follows the Bills family, after the mill sold along with 433 adjoining acres, as they prepare to demolish the working sawmill that their late father, Melbourne Bills, had established in 1936. His sons, Alan and
Everett Bills, now in their 80s, talk about what it was like to grow up on “Bills Hill,” their family compound on Route 100 in Wardsboro. They recount harrowing tales of fire and flood and tell funny stories about delivering wood.
In the video, “they go from the anguish of destroying their own mill to comic relief in a flash,” says video maker Theresa Maggio. “These are amazingly resilient people. I feel lucky to know them.”
Maggio had interviewed the formidable Melbourne Bills, the sawmill’s founder, and his wife, Mabel, back in the early 1990s when she was a reporter for the Brattleboro Reformer. “The moment I heard that Bills Lumber had…