This Old House

By Norman F. Hewes

Peter and his wife, Patty, go to Vermont looking for Peter’s ancestors. His grandmother often talked about the farm the family owned where she was born. He finds the record of it in the town clerk’s office. The town clerk says it is still owned by his great uncle, and tells him the uncle is still alive, living in a nursing home. Uncle needs rescuing and Peter takes him home to the farm. Peter buys the farm, moves his family there, and gives the old gent much happiness in his last days. Peter not only learns the farm and family history, but life as it was during Prohibition in the cities. He learns of his uncle’s lost love, the person who lies in the unmarked grave up on the hill behind the house, and various other secrets about the farm.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Norman F. Hewes
• Release date: Mar 24, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310646560

Norman F. Hewes

Norman Hewes was born in the early 1930s. His parents lost everything in the Great Depression. He was nine years old before he lived in a house with interior plumbing, running water or electric lights. The house did have a lot of love in it and this is reflected in the stories he writes. During mud season he often rode to school in the back of a cattle truck. The one thing the town had was a good library. He found much enjoyment and soon read beyond his grade level. All through his youth he worked at various jobs, mowing lawns, shoveling snow and peddling papers. When old enough he worked on a dairy farm. Graduating in 1952, he worked as a bus driver for a few months. The draft soon caught up with him and he was sent to Korea. Returning home he worked as a mechanic, and then as a factory worker. In the meantime he was married and lived together with his wife on a small farm for fifty-four years of happiness. Always, any spare minute, he read fiction and when he retired in 1996, he taught himself to type. His wife helped to make his stories readable, she being in printing as a proofreader. He has continued to write, using volunteers he finds on the Internet to edit and proofread. He is now striving to post 100 stories in different mediums. Many are short stories with a few novels interspersed. He still lives within twenty miles of his birthplace just as he has all his life here in beautiful Vermont. Norm most often used “happyhugo” as the author to write his stories under and uses this for his blogspot. The Happy denotes the type of stories he writes, having a happy ending for most of his characters and trying to follow the Golden Rule of: “Do Unto Others as you would have Them Do to You.”

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