An Englishman In Blowville

A Short Story About A Short Man

By: Scott E Adams

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

An Englishman in Blowville is a humorous and atmospheric historical short story set deep in the logging country of late-1890s Potter County, Pennsylvania.

When English traveler Timothy Liddicoat accidentally wanders into the isolated timber town of Blowville, he expects to stay only long enough to find a meal and the next road out of town. Instead, he finds himself drawn into a rough world of pig’s ears, poker games, company scrip, suspicious loggers, and endless hemlock forests.

Tim is hopeless with an axe, dangerously polite, and entirely unequipped for life in a Pennsylvania logging camp. Yet somehow, through parliamentary poker rules, accidental misunderstandings, and a notebook that makes half the town think he is a Pinkerton agent, the quiet Englishman slowly becomes part of the strange little community.

As rumors spread, friendships form, and the uneasy woods surrounding Blowville begin to reveal hints of something darker beneath the humor, Tim discovers that some places have a way of holding onto people.

Filled with colorful characters, dry wit, pig’s ears, whiskey, and the rugged atmosphere of the northern Pennsylvania timber era, An Englishman in Blowville is a warm and memorable tale about belonging in the most unexpected of places.