Peter Loon (40 page)

Continued best wishes to Sarah Fieder and Michael Driscoll.

Thanks go to Nick Dean (Historical Resource Extraordinaire), Doug Stover (the Man of Ten Thousand Biographies) and James L. Nelson (the Great American Nautical Novelist) for their interest, support, and friendship.

More gratitude to DeDe Teeters of Armchair Books in Port Orchard, Washington; Susan Holloway of Good Books, and the folks at the Common Reader; Peggy Hailey of Book People in Austin, Texas. Someday, when I'm able to travel, I hope to meet you all.

Thanks to all the folks who have communicated with me by way of
www.moosepath.com
; and added thanks to my friends Scott Silverman, Dane Hartgrove, and Johnny Pate.

Most especially, thanks to Jane and Mark Bisco, Susan and Barnaby Porter, Penny and Ewing Walker, Pat and Clark Boynton, Trudy Price, Susan Richardson, Frank Slack, Joanne Cotton, Tyler Dobson, Devon Sherman, Hester Stuhlman, and all my other friends and colleagues at the Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta.

Finally–and most importantly–nothing is ever accomplished alone and I couldn't write a word without the extraordinary support and encouragement of my family, the joy of my children, and the inspiration of my wife.

Moxie! to all.

Van Reid is the author of
Cordelia Underwood
(a
New York Times
Notable Book),
Mollie Peer, Daniel Plainway, Fiddler's Green, Moss Farm
, and
Mrs. Roberto
. His family has lived in Maine since the eighteenth century, and for the last twelve years he has worked in the Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta. He lives with his wife and children in Edgecomb.