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02 Feb 2010: Today is Groundhog Day, far and away Bill's favorite holiday, and from his perspective a true cause for celebration. Groundhog Day has an interesting origin, something Bill wrote about several years ago for this website. But more important than its roots, perhaps, for him it meant that Red Sox pitchers and catchers would soon board a bus destined for Florida, and ice-covered ponds would soon thaw, enabling fish and insects and fisherman to resume their warm-weather habits. Regardless of whether Phil saw his shadow, Groundhog Day meant we were over the hump--it meant soon: another winter nearly in the books, and just over the horizon, the joy of spring stirring up hope.


William G. Tapply died July 28, 2009 at his home in Hancock, NH, after a tough battle with leukemia. Obituaries have been published in The Boston Globe and Boston Herald.

Thanks to all of you who attended the memorial event in September--it was your attendance that made it a truly special event. And thanks to you who have passed along your condolences through the guestbook, through emails, and through donations to The Nature Conservancy, The Harris Center, and Hooked On A Cure. Your kind thoughts and generosity have meant more to my family than can be expressed here. Clearly, he will be missed by many.

I will continue to pass along news, reviews, and any other relevant tidbits on this website (two books have just been published, and three more are to come).

While Dad may have left us for his own "home water," I am grateful that we can still open a book and remember him through his stories.

-Mike Tapply

Stoney Calhoun's 3rd Novel
Dark Tiger

Upland Autumn
Birds, Dogs, and Shtogun Shells

Out now!
Out now!

 

THE ELEMENTS OF MYSTERY FICTION
New, expanded edition.
GRAY GHOST
Stoney Calhoun's 2nd novel, available now . Read an excerpt!
TROUT EYES
A collection of reflections and essays on fly fishing.
Hell Bent
Brady
's 24th case.
New from Vicki Stiefel:  

The Dead Stone was published as a paperback original by Leisure in March 2005. Vicki, its author and Bill's wife, has received critical acclaim for her first book, Body Parts, published the spring of 2004. The Grief Shop, the third in the series, came out in August 2006. The Bone Man became available in September 2007.

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