Norman Kalloch
My Work
After a thirty-four-year career in natural resources, my wife and I moved to an off the grid cabin on a pond in Somerset County Maine where we lived for ten years. At the time we were two of the six year round residents in the township. It was there I became interested in Benedict Arnold's 1775 march to Quebec. Knowing that the thousand m
After a thirty-four-year career in natural resources, my wife and I moved to an off the grid cabin on a pond in Somerset County Maine where we lived for ten years. At the time we were two of the six year round residents in the township. It was there I became interested in Benedict Arnold's 1775 march to Quebec. Knowing that the thousand man army crossed our pond in Bateaux made this piece of revolutionary war history more intriguing.
Later I read about the the Robert Forbes family retracing Arnold's route in 1783 from Quebec to the Kennebec River. I knew from the article the sufferings and tragedy they encountered would be the ingredients for an interesting historical fiction account of their ordeal trying to break out of the wilderness. A Long Way to Walk became my first book. I learned that I enjoyed writing and went on to pen, 45th Parallel, Life in the Backwoods and my new book Stranded.