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Alec Hastings

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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 told him stories and set him on the path to telling his own. He has six children and step-children, and he is happily married to Denise Martin. Retiring from teaching high school English in 2014, he continues to teach writing and storytelling at a community college in the heart of the Green Mountains.

Alec Hastings

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Website
Go to Website
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 told him stories and set him on the path to telling his own. He has six children and step-children, and he is happily married to Denise Martin. Retiring from teaching high school English in 2014, he continues to teach writing and storytelling at a community college in the heart of the Green Mountains.

Books from Alec Hastings

Otter St. Onge and the Bootleggers: A Tale of Adventure

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Otter St. Onge and the Bootleggers

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