For decades, writer and artist Tom Hennessey has fished, hunted, camped, canoed, and snowshoed in the woods of his native Maine. His marvelous essays about those experiences have delighted and moved the thousands who each week look for them in the Bangor Daily News. Readers marvel, too, at the extraordinary pen-and-ink and graphite pencil illustrations that accompany Tom's words and evoke the game birds, fish, gun dogs, and gear that are so much a part of an outdoorsman's life.
Assembled in Handy to Home is the very best of Tom's work—his essays, his black-and-white drawings, and, for the first time ever in book form, twelve of his stunning watercolors, all produced specifically for this book. Acclaimed by collectors and galleries throughout the United States, Tom's paintings bring to life the traditions of the Maine outdoors, whether trolling for landlocked salmon on a blustery day in a Grand Laker canoe, or poling a sculling boat through a duck marsh at dawn.
