About Us

          Bob Labbance serves as contributing editor to Golf Styles New England. He also designs and edits The Bulletin for the Golf Collectors Society and serves as golf editor for Turf Magazine. In addition, his freelance writing and photography has appeared in numerous national magazines including Golf Magazine, USGA Golf Journal, Links and Golf Course Management. Labbance is the author of thirteen books on golf-he began writing guidebooks to the golf courses of New England nearly 20 years ago and has also written a number of club history books—in addition to biographies, history and fiction. He is a panelist for Golfweek's "Top 100 Courses" list, an award-winning photographer and a multiple winner of writing awards from the GCSAA. He resides in Montpelier, Vermont, with his wife, Kathie and two children Griffin and Simone.

          Patrick White holds a degree in Communications from Villanova University. He has worked as an editor for several national and regional magazines both in and out of the golf industry. White assisted Geoffrey Cornish with the recent book, "18 Stakes on a Sunday Afternoon," a history of golf course architecture in North America, as well as "Classic Golf Hole Design," a book that explores the inspiration for today's great golf holes. His freelance writing appears regularly in a diverse array of publications, including Turf, Superintendent, Tree Services, Farming, and School Foodservice & Nutrition magazines among others. He and his wife, Tamara, and young son Aidan live in Middlesex, Vermont.

 

About
Notown
          Notown Communications offers public relations, editorial and photographic services to the golf industry, specializing in golf course construction, design and maintenance. The company was founded in Notown, a remote section of Stockbridge, Vermont in 1995.
          The territory that became known as Notown was left unclaimed by the adjoining towns of Stockbridge, Bridgewater and Killington when Vermont's towns were established in 1810. Annexed by Stockbridge in 1885, the region once supported a boarding house, gold mine, general store, school and numerous private residences until the 1927 flood completely devastated the settlement. Today, the property is a wild and enchanting state wildlife management area, and the only structure is a shelter along the Appalachian Trail. It is from this beauty that we derive our strength.

  Team Notown
  includes the following key personnel: Rob
  Halpert: Legal counsel and president of the
  Bad Golf Institute; Kathie Hickman: Foreign
  Language Editor; Serena Fox: Designer;
  Tamara White: Lobbyist; Simone
  Labbance: Research Coordinator; Bunkie
  Foozle: Historian and Minister of Mirth;
  Griffin Samir: Advertising Manager; Paul
  Richardson: Fluidity Oversight; Joe Stine:
  Webmaster

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Box 709, Montpelier, Vermont 05601 Phone (802) 223-7372 Fax (802) 224-9181
email blabbance@notowngolf.com or pwhite@notowngolf.com