The Lord of Cat Bow
by Stuart Weeks
Wow! This is an absolutely incredible and poignant story—I’m totally engrossed; it’s as if you’re reading to me. I bring The Lord of Cat Bow with me wherever I go and feel as if I have become a part of the family. This story is going places!
-Doris “Granny D” Haddock, author of Walking Across America in My 90th Year
This is a true love story, one that will touch all but the hardest of hearts and soften even those. Don’t let the idyllic beginning fool you. The summer season passes into autumn, winter, and then spring, ever and anew. This is a story about life, and death, and resurrection.
-Tom Kavet, former Vice-President, McGraw Hill
I have thoroughly enjoyed The Lord of Cat Bow. It is a splendid memoir.
-Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of The Fitzgeralds & The Kennedys
The Lord of Cat Bow is a remarkable piece of intimate biographical writing. It touches on many different sides of America, particularly the WASP world of New England, and looks at the events of the past century through the prism of this grandson-grandfather relationship. Its strength is the heartfelt quality that runs throughout. The reader is allowed to look in on a traditional family at work and play and to compare it with other and very different facets of the American experience. There is an especially striking passage on the era of the Sixties—as seen through the eyes of representatives of two generations, holding very different views of what the Sixties meant to the nation—which makes the reader think rather than just appreciate.
-Dr. Morris Martin, Professor Emeritus of Classics, Oxford and Princeton Universities
I picked up the book when I was sick and turned to the first page—with no idea what I was in for. I’ve never laughed or cried so much with any story. It was a joy from start to finish. And at the end, I was well!
-Barbara Weyant Woodward, CEO, Codcor
The Lord of Cat Bow is a moving story about an old New Hampshire and New England family that takes you on an unexpected and moving journey through the seasons of a life, with abiding lessons for all, young and old alike. A love story, indeed.
-Judson Hale, Editor-in-Chief, Yankee Magazine
The presentation is so well done that I look forward to presenting my copy to the State Library as a grand addition to the work of our New Hampshire writers.
Hugh Gregg, Former New Hampshire Governor
I enjoyed The Lord of Cat Bow tremendously!
-Julian Bach, IMG, one of the "grand old men" of New York's literary world.
The Lord of Cat Bow has the heartfelt quality, the appreciation of family, and the respect for enduring values, which are deeply needed on the American scene just now. The story is restorative in nature, and could be inspiring for thousands.
-Richard Eberhart, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and recipient of the National Book Award
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About the Author
President John Adams wrote that the great grandfathers study war, so the grandfathers can study politics, so the fathers can study business, so the sons can study history and literature. The author’s forbears have served in state or national office for the last eight generations. His great-grandfather, John Wingate Weeks, was the secretary of war in the Cabinets of Harding and Coolidge, and was also responsible for the landmark environmental legislation known as the Weeks Act. The author’s grandfather, Sinclair Weeks, the “Lord of Cat Bow,” was a U.S. senator and secretary of commerce under Eisenhower. The author’s father, Sinclair Weeks Jr., was a business leader. has directed his creative energies into the cultural sector, as a writer, educator, and founder and director of The Center for American Studies in Concord, Massachusetts.
In this capacity, he has hosted programs for over 1,000 international leaders, introducing them to American culture through the historic window of Concord. Stuart has hosted the radio show Of, By, and For the People, authored the column, “Uncommon Sense,” and is currently completing, with two colleagues, the transcription, editing, and preparation for publication of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s yet unpublished, complete masterwork, The Natural History of the Intellect. A father of four, Stuart and his wife, Juliane, divide their time between Concord, Massachusetts and the Granite State of his forbears.
312 pp, Paperback
ISBN 0-9636413-1-X
Price $16.95
