The owner of a Lunenburg business is taking years of stories he has collected on the job and turning it into a children’s book.
Basil Oickle, owner of Trot In Time Buggy Rides, estimates he may have owned as many as 60 horses over the years but he’ll never forget his first horse Cindy.
So, even though she had passed away long ago, he turned to her for help when he developed a bad case of writer’s block.
“What ever I wrote it just didn’t make sense, oh I was frustrated. One day it dawned on me, now I can’t write the book but I know who can, and that’s going to be my first horse Cindy. Once I realized I could tell the story through the eyes of her, well the words just flowed,” he said.
He is currently working with a publisher to get the first book written, but with all the stories there are to tell he plans to write a whole series.
“I am going to start writing from the very beginning in 1996, from the time I showed up on a farmer’s doorstep and asked him if he had a horse for sale. Looking back it’s hard to believe that I knew nothing about a horse and buggy business and now they consider me the iconic business on the waterfront,” he said.
