About Rick Bessette

Rick Bessette, a Shelburne native, has spent his childhood and working life at historic Shelburne Farms. He has written a book of poetry, A Vermonter’s Heritage: Listening to the Trees, published in August 2010. Rick has spent a lifetime surrounded by Shelburne Farms’ immense natural beauty and this is reflected in his down-to-earth poetry, echoing the peaceful, heartening effect of nature on the human soul.