Ben Linder Cafe at Bridgewater State University

03/01/2026

Green Mountain College in Vermont has closed. Its eccentric owner is looking for new uses. Instead of continuing to make Bridgewater a coffee campus, maybe we should open a new one.
The owner is seeking proposals with an oddly religious bent, but since the fair-trade coffee movement has been built by faith communities, maybe we could make that work.
By "we" I mean someone else, with me as a consultant. I'm too close to retirement to take this on, but not too close to help someone else.
Side note: one of my favorite undergraduate professors was Dr. Tom Benson. He was a religious person and a philosopher who went on to president of Green Mountain College. So maybe we could use that!

Liquor magnate Raj Bhakta has scrapped his plans to turn Green Mountain into a $100 million complex of hotel rooms, condos, and a micro-distillery.

11/25/2025

If we ever get to have a café, this would be a nice theme song to start each school day. Also makes a good menu!

12/16/2024

I have a lot to say about this curtain. I'll just mention that it is made of glass, and that it goes UP when the show starts.

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05/03/2024

The first thing to know about honey coffee is that it contains no honey, though it is often inherently sweet. The term refers to the processing -- what happens to the coffee between harvest and export. It's complicated, but our friends at Sweet Maria's provide a nice explanation.

Honey coffee is a hybrid method of processing coffee fruit, that creates a cup somewhere between a traditional wet-process coffee and the fruitier natural

03/24/2024

Alway part of the vocabulary.

03/13/2024

The map of our coffee seminar grows bit by bit. Adding coffee from Thika, Kenya today.

Communities and/or cooperatives of origin for the coffees shared in my Second-year Seminar, the Secret Life of Coffee. This map starts in 2024; many, many coffees were shared in the prior 17 years that the course has been running. But we have to start somewhere! Blue: coffees served in 2024 course Y...

03/12/2024

What's playing on my computer at the moment -- simulating radio from 2010 Haiti. Use this site to choose a place and a decade and then see where it takes you. At the moment, it is background music as I prepare a presentation about Haiti.

Radiooooo - The Musical Time Machine

02/28/2024

Yet again, illegal is not a noun. Inflation correlates with dehumanizing language, so it is time to revisit my 2018 post on this subject. I have added a few notes and a poem.

Library of Congress researcher Shameema Rahman discusses several failed efforts to count federal laws , and does not offer an estimate. Blog...

02/14/2024

Coffee romance.

02/14/2024

Today I'm sharing a blog post with my students. It is about a video I describe as a half-century old, and I mention that puts it at about the time I was born. Then I realized the blog post is almost 14 years old. Neither the video nor I is a half-century young any more.
Tempus fugit.

Among several video entries in the new MaxGuide to Coffee , the 1961 promotional piece " This is Coffee " from the Coffee Brewing Institute...

02/12/2024

My small page on Purpose Games is still functioning. I will use it today for some coffee teaching.

The games created by jhayesboh

01/08/2024

Another full day on our Geography of Coffee & Volcanoes travel course. More to come, but for now, at least my Flickr folder is up to date.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jhayesboh/albums/72177720313869307