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...began coaching on the high school level. That year he signed on at Wicomico High School in Salisbury, Md, before making the transfer the next year to Neptune High School in Neptune...
...days of his life. Hornet suffers low-pressure areas during which he ceases to function. Hypnotized by the multitude of life's choices, he can make no choice at all. The novel is partly autobiographical. It is laid in Maryland, where Earth grew up; Horner teaches English at Wicomico State Teachers College, while Earth teaches English at the Buffalo campus of New York State University...
Holly trees arch gracefully over the neat white fences that line the dirt road leading to the brick mansion at West Hatton, the 630-acre Zantzinger farm-estate in southern Maryland. The mansion's colonnaded porch faces the somnolent Wicomico River, which flows past a placid pond and a white summerhouse. Also on the estate is an austere farmhouse from which William Devereux Zantzinger, 24, runs one of the most prosperous tobacco operations in Charles County...
...William Zantzinger's status as a rural aristocrat. His father, a former member of the Maryland house of delegates and the state planning commission, still lives in the mansion, where he and his wife entertain in convivial country style. William and his attractive wife, Jane, 24, organized the Wicomico Hunt Club, love to halloo after hounds across their fields. William is unlike many a gentleman farmer. His farming success is due not to the efficiency of hired supervisors, but to the long hours of gritty, grubby work he himself does afield. But by last week it was apparent that...
Jacob Horner goes off to the sunlit campus of Wicomico State Teachers, where he has wangled an instructor's job (English). He tries the World Almanac cure, but boning up on statistics about air line distances between principal cities only demonstrates that facts cannot minister to a diseased mind. He knows his bad days, when there is "no weather," a haunting waking and sleeping dream in which he is deprived of contact with the natural world. When Horner re-establishes contact with people, it is through the "pretty dedicated bunch" at Wicomico. Here he discovers his true calling...