Please Walk Your Horses up This Hill: A Nantucket Boyhood

by Bill Hoadley

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781465363794
Publisher:	Xlibris US
Publication date:	10/27/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	131
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

After leaving Nantucket, the author attended 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.