J. Hooper

Hooper's Pasture offers a glimpse of small town life during the past hundred years - particularly in Maine and Vermont. It is one man's view of the fun of living in rural New England, capturing in print the pleasures and the excitement in his life and in the lives of his Down East parents.Riffle the pages of this book and you will find its author caddying in Maine in the 1920s for a man who built the Siberian Railroad and years later, in 1981, still chasing a golf ball in the foothills of show more Vermont's Green Mountains.You may also share with him memories of trolley cars and old-fashioned remedies, learn how to make a genuine new England boiled dinner, take a trip with him to visit Eleanor Roosevelt at Campobello. If you insist on reading his book, you may enjoy with him the haunting summer sunsets and creepy fogs of the Maine coast or sit with him on a Vermont deer trail waiting for the inland fog to lift.Of these things and many others, John Hooper mixes his childhood in Maine and his newspaper years in Vermont into the experiences he unfolds in this book – – reduced while ruminating in "Hooper's pasture." show less