Please Walk Your Horses up This Hill (ePub)
A Nantucket Boyhood
(Sprache: Englisch)
Nantucket is an island approximately thirty miles off the Massachusetts coast. Along with Tuckernuck and Muskeget Islands, they compose Nantucket County. The island was discovered by the Englishman Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602, and was first settled in 1659...
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Nantucket is an island approximately thirty miles off the Massachusetts coast. Along with Tuckernuck and Muskeget Islands, they compose Nantucket County. The island was discovered by the Englishman Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602, and was first settled in 1659 by Quakers from Salisbury, Massachusetts, originally from West Country in England. Though Nantuckets days of glory are long gone, it is still remembered in mainstream culture as the initial setting of the fictional tale Moby Dick, as well as a handful of limericks that begin with, There once was a man from Nantucket
Author Bill Hoadley is a son of Nantucket, and in his autobiographical book, Please Walk Your Horses Up This Hill, he shares with readers the rich history and notable personalities that have walked through or lived in this island since the first Western settlers arrived. Emphasis is placed during the years of his life and the places and people that he lived with. It also contains a genealogy of the authors family, with notable members of his ancestry given special mention. The vivid descriptions and narrations contained within this book are supplemented by authentic photographs of people and places close to the authors heart.
Author Bill Hoadley is a son of Nantucket, and in his autobiographical book, Please Walk Your Horses Up This Hill, he shares with readers the rich history and notable personalities that have walked through or lived in this island since the first Western settlers arrived. Emphasis is placed during the years of his life and the places and people that he lived with. It also contains a genealogy of the authors family, with notable members of his ancestry given special mention. The vivid descriptions and narrations contained within this book are supplemented by authentic photographs of people and places close to the authors heart.
Autoren-Porträt von Bill Hoadley
After leaving Nantucket, the authorattended college for two years, but
did not know what he wanted. He
left and joined the US Navy, which
enabled him to see a lot of the world.
He lived in Boston for fourteen
years working in a distillery, but
the city life soon paled. Nantucket
was now out of the question, so
he bought a small house on Peaks
Island near Portland, Maine. Six
years later he moved there and for eleven years commuted to
Portland where he worked as a clerk at the Maine Superior
Court. At age fifty, deciding to go it alone, he quit his job
and moved to Matinicus Island, which became his Shangri-la
and substitute Nantucket. He has been running Tuckanuck
Lodge, a bed-and-breakfast, since. In addition to his duties as
an innkeeper, he is also the clerk-treasurer for the Matinicus
Plantation Electric Co., the smallest publicly-owned generating
facility in the United States, and is the caucus chairman for the
island Democratic Party, often attending state conventions in
Maine. A bachelor, he enjoys long walks around the island with
his beloved dog, Sandy.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Bill Hoadley
- 2011, 131 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Xlibris US
- ISBN-10: 1465363793
- ISBN-13: 9781465363794
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.10.2011
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