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Alec Hastings grew up in Happy Valley—yes, it’s true—in the Vermont foothills just west of the Connecticut River. Perhaps his happiest neighbor was the locally famous Warren Bumps or “Bumpy,” a logger and jack-of-all-trades who stood as large in the author’s imagination as Too Tall in Otter St. Onge and the Bootleggers. Warren’s father, Elmer, milked twenty-five Jerseys on a small farm near the top of Sugar Hill, and on that farm the author earned his first George Washington from the kindly old man with the twinkling blue eyes. The author’s grandfather, Scott Hastings, Sr., and his father, Scott Jr., were also self-reliant hill folk. His grandfather was driving logs out of the woods with horses at age fourteen. He taught his grandson the names of trees, how to sharpen an ax, and how to drive a war-surplus Jeep. His father taught him how to shoot a rifle, use carpentry tools, and believe in himself. His grandmother Josephine filled him up with sour cream cookies and fresh baked bread! All these elders filled him with stories. If, as the saying goes, the child is the author of the man, this gives you a glimpse into the author’s life. He has six children and step-children, and he is happily married to Denise Martin. At the time of publication, he is still teaching high school English (and storytelling) in those same foothills of eastern Vermont.
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