Bringing up Billy: Growing up on a Family Farm, is a delightful collection of stories from a simpler time. It was a time when neighbors all knew one another and took care of each other without question. A time when the stresses of the day were about making it home for dinner at six-thirty, when you were out playing in the woods a little too late. For Billy Blasedale, life is one adventure after another, as he learns all about life, friendship, and the responsibility of growing up on a small family farm. Join Billy on this adventure, and experience the simple life of rural America in the sixties and seventies in the eyes of a bright, energetic young boy. Tim Hewitt lived in Maine when he undertook this journey of a lifetime, and thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail under the trail name Paddler in 1999.A software engineer and engineering manager by trade, Tim's love of the outdoors has kept him in the woods, fields and streams all of his life.After spending nearly six years living in Malaysia, he currently lives in North Carolina, and enjoys getting out into the mountains as much as possible when he is not writing. Bringing up Billy is a delightful collection of stories from a simpler time. It was a time when neighbors all knew one another and took care of each other without question. A time when the stresses of the day were about making it home for dinner at six-thirty, when you were out playing in the woods a little too late. For Billy Blasedale, life is one adventure after another, as he learns all about life, friendship, and the responsibility of growing up on a small family farm. Join Billy on this adventure, and experience the simple life of rural America in the sixties and seventies in the eyes of a bright, energetic young boy.
