Honored repeatedly by the New York Press Association, writer Jim Atwell shares his shift from college dean to a sweatshirt-and-denims guy. These days he’s at home in Fly Creek—just three miles from Cooperstown's National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Come celebrate—

• country life and people
• central New York’s beauty, history, culture
• a middle-aged widower’s fresh start

Live the past and present of a classic rural hamlet.

See Jim’s fumbling start in farming prodded by 80-year-old neighbor Arrie Hecox.

Share his steady entry into hamlet life and even into the Cooperstown’s “smokeless industry,” baseball tourism.

Witness his ham-handed proposal to Anne, their marriage in a sheep field, and Fly Creek’s gift of an old-fashioned shivaree.

Anne Geddes-Atwell illustrated Jim's book. Click on the chicks to see her sketches adorning the pages within From Fly Creek

Contact Jim and Anne at: their e-mail address