meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Rumble Strip

Jubal. Tail End of the Old School.

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A conversation about hunting, then welding, then hunting again.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

I know me it's the rack you know when I see the horns I don't know what it does it just

0:08.7

If I have to wait a long time for him to come closer or to get a better shot. I just get nervous. I mean my

0:16.7

leg was shake or I'll start to tremble and I mean and I have to scold myself saying, you know, you've done this before, you know, what the

0:26.0

hell's the matter with you? You know? And if you, I always said if you don't get shook up,

0:37.2

you're not really a hunter you're not you're I don't know guess you're dead you're here something here's your dog I see them out here in the field and no matter what side's there. I'm excited to see you.

0:50.0

Welcome to Rommel Strip, Vermont. That's Jubal Dervage. I'm sitting in my front yard watching these trucks roll by.

1:02.0

It's funny because it's really hot, but you can also feel on the edges of the day and certainly at nighttime you can feel fall coming on.

1:10.0

And as soon as the nights start getting colder around here, these pickup trucks start driving up and down my road really slow.

1:18.0

Today I noticed the first one and I don't really understand what they see from their trucks, but it's all part of getting ready for deer season.

1:28.0

Jubal Dervich is from Eden, Vermont, and I met him through my boyfriend Gordon. Gordon and his two

1:34.3

partners, Robbie and Hilton, own a small hydroelectric plant way up near the

1:38.6

Canadian border in North Troy, Vermont.

1:42.8

The place was pretty run down when they bought it,

1:44.5

and most of what most of the work that has been done

1:47.2

on the site they've done themselves.

1:49.4

But over the years, they have hired

1:51.3

a handful of people from the Northeast Kingdom, crane operators and

1:55.4

engineers, and Jubal, Jubil is one of the few certified bridge welders in

2:00.9

Vermont, and he's the kind of person who walks on a job site and people respect

2:06.1

him automatically.

2:08.2

He's a hard worker, he thinks things through before he does them, and he also doesn't talk unless he has something to say.

2:15.8

Jubil is also one of the most passionate deer hunters I have ever met in Vermont.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.