Billy Steers

Tractor Mac Saves Billy Steers

Marc Notes: Originally published in Roxbury, Connecticut, by Tractor Mac in 2007.; When a blizzard strikes town and it looks like the tree-lighting ceremony has to be cancelled this year, Tractor Mac knows just the way to save Christmas. Brief Description: When a blizzard strikes town and it looks like the tree-lighting ceremony has to be cancelled this year, Tractor Mac knows just the way to save Christmas. Publisher Marketing: Every year, the whole town looks forward to the Christmas tree lighting, but this year, a blizzard has struck. The snow starts to fall more and more heavily, and soon, Tractor Mac and his pals are snowed in at the barn. Farmer Bill and Sibley the horse are supposed to be on their way to the center of town with the tree, but when they get stuck in the blizzard and it looks like the ceremony will have to be called off, Tractor Mac saves them and the whole holiday celebration.

Contributor Bio:  Steers, Billy Growing up in the 1940s, I knew my mother declined to reveal the makings of her salad dressing to admiring guests because its base was olive oil, which almost everyone we knew in northern New Jersey considered "disgusting." Garlic was even worse, and my interest in it would surely have come much later in my life if I hadn't settled in Europe after my college years and naval service. The move had been all but fated by reading novels set there and chafing all the more under the restrictions of American Puritanism. Cliched as it sounds, decades of adventure followed, interspersed with writing, as much as anything because I didn't know what else to do-certainly not spend my days in a disciplined office. While the goal is still to write a decent sentence in English, it's now diluted by visions of a delicious supper.