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June 30, 1905. The hands of the vessel’s clock slowly rise toward midnight. A beautiful, one hundred ton schooner named Olympia makes ready to sail out of the crescent cove of Eastern Harbor, located on a small Caribbean island. The voyage will be one of danger, apprehension and foreboding fear. The dim, quarter moon seems a portent of the terrible things that will take place aboard Captain White Bush’s boat. The weather was agreeable, a medium east wind, a pleasant rolling sea and a happy crew and passengers—eleven in all.
The author reconstructs that voyage in detail—the surprises, the struggles, the tears, the prayers—and the ensuing horrors! In the tradition of his English ancestors and their fascination with story telling, he gathers some of the guarded tales recounting the episode he heard as a child, then solidifies them in an interview with an "Old Timer." And The Sea Shall Hide Them will carry you along with those unfortunate passengers and crew. His account will show what horrible and fateful things can befall anyone if they happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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William Jackson was born on the tiny island of Utila, in the Bay Islands of Honduras. They were a British colony for several years, the early settlers arriving there from the British Isles, via the Cayman Islands. At the young age of eleven he was lured to the plains of Western Kansas, close to Dodge City. The bait offered by those cowboy flicks that Hollywood distributed to the far corners of the world during the 1930s and 40s pulled him away from his friendly island home. This inherent need to see other distant lands caused him to pester his parents to send him there to board with other relatives. At that time the United States was immersed in the middle of a burdensome depression. The warm sun, lush growth and azure seas stamped him forever. Mix that with the far-reaching, treeless plains and cold winters of wheat country and you end up with dual sets of perspectives.
Bill grew up in an atmosphere of parents, aunts, uncles and villagers that could have been out of a Charles Dickens story, though set in a different environment. This was so because their habits, speech and customs were more representative of the 1800s than the 1900s. His maternal great, great grandfather and one other gentleman had an entire eight-mile long island to themselves. His father, Edwin Aaron Jackson traced his roots to an early settler of the Cayman Islands, John Shearer Jackson. Another maternal ancestor was William Morgan, a former Freemason from Batavia, New York who, for some strange reason, ended up on Utila. He became a successful businessman and landowner but his life was so private that little was known of his background.
The old people were verbal storytellers, great talkers who were proud to carry on by word of mouth their genealogy going far back to Shakespearean times. They were accomplished, daring Cayman seamen and turtle harvesters. The author hopes his generation is not the last of the taletellers that he once knew and listened to.
Jackson knew he wanted to write from the time he was high school editor of the small junior class paper. He remembers the prod of excitement seeing something he had written mimeographed on the cheap paper and cranked out by hand. And The Sea Shall Hide Them is his first published novel. He has previously published a book of poetry, has enough for another volume but is currently working on his memoirs. The latter has to do with he and his four other brothers growing up like tropical Huck Finns and Tom Sawyers on a challenging island and surrounding waters, in dangerous times—and many happy and enduring adventures.
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