Greetings from Cooperstown

I’m in Cooperstown, NY, looking forward to speaking at the James Fenimore Cooper conference in nearby Oneonta.

James Fenimore Cooper statue in Cooperstown, NY.

My father Thomas Philbrick is a retired English professor, whose first book was JAMES FENIMORE COOPER AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN SEA FICTION. Needless to say, I’ll be following in my dad’s considerable wake when I speak about Cooper and the Sea at Oneonta.  On Saturday July 13 it’ll be back to BUNKER HILL when I speak at one of my favorite bookstores, Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vermont.