I am grateful for Thomas Urquhart’s excellent review of my book, “A Flick of Sunshine,” written with my son Alexander J. Hill, which appeared in the Telegram on Oct. 2 (“ ‘A Flick of Sunshine’ spins a thrilling yarn about a real-life Bath sailor in the late 19th century,” Page E4). It is superbly written and captures the highlights and spirit of the truly remarkable life of Richard Willis “Will” Jackson. It is an engaging tale of shipwreck and survival in the closing days of sail in the late 19th century.

I would like to correct one error. Jackson was the grandson of W.D. Crooker, not Charles Crooker, his older brother and partner in the Bath shipbuilding firm of C. & W.D. Crooker. And, I might add, the “Jackson descendant” who (Urquhart notes) visits the site of the shipwreck in the Marshall Islands was a notable Maine author from Boothbay Harbor, Richard M. Hallet, whose short stories I have collected in another new book, “Beyond the Tides,” published by Down East Books.

Fred Hill
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