Right now you will be wondering, who on earth are these people who have been our guides through this fascinating city! Wonder no further, (but keep on wandering), friend traveler! Meet the folks behind the NBTC!
HALLIDAY (HALLIE) MOXTON A founding member of the NBTC, Hallie was born and raised right here in Nagspeake. A writer of children’s books and an occasional contributor to the Magothy Gazette, Hallie enjoys bocce and badminton and hosting fondue parties.
WILMER COBBLEBRIDGE Willie is a historian and archivist for the Nagspeake Municipal Archives. A lifetime Nagspeaker, he has witnessed three Archive immolations and hopes to be permitted to light the tinder in 2010.
CHARLOTTE GRACECHURCH-FERRY Charlotte is the founder and CEO of Gillymolle Press, which specializes in “the Nagspeake you never knew was right around the corner.” She is wholly responsible for the fact that the NBTC has a New York freelancer on the payroll.
HOWARD WEBLEND Howard Weblend is responsible for the beautiful apple logo that used to grace the top of each page on this site. While the three above were busily debating a temporary logo for the site, Howard wandered outside as he was and is wont to do. When asked for his input, Howard produced a lumpy and slightly chewed-upon apple he had picked up out of the gutter. History was made!
Howard Weblend is also Hallie Moxton’s dog.
Willie Cobblebridge, crabbing at our annual retreat!
A Few Words from the Webmistress…
Hi, all! It’s just been so much fun helping to make up this website. We certainly have a lot of writing to do, haven’t we? Good job we have folks like Willie and Charlotte and Howard–and of course, yours truly–around to churn out the gems that will make a visit to this site like a visit to the Magothy! Of course I’ve been a writer my whole life, but this kind of writing is so different from children’s adventures!
And, naturally, I meant to mention Kate, too, of course. She’s a very nice girl, but I do think one can’t help but know she isn’t from around here. Oh, it’s nice having her to visit, but she isn’t the only “expatriate” we have in town, you know! Just last month we had that wedding gown designer with the fancy name. We put her on our links page, and you can look her up and see all the celebrity gowns she’s made. She’s quite a lot more famous than Kate Milford is. I think she’s even famous in New York. Actually, I heard from someone that there’s another Kate Milford in Brooklyn who’s a photographer. She’s probably a lot more famous than the one we got.
Of course, when you tell a Nagspeaker you’re from New York, it does give a certain impression. I’m not sure we weren’t a little star-struck when she showed up, but I think we can be forgiven for it. She sort of wandered in off the train with a fancy leather satchel, a battered backpack, and a rolling suitcase with about a thousand pockets. I think she must have bought her typewriter at an antique shop once she got here, because she can’t have lugged an old Underwood all the way from the city.
Honestly, it isn’t as if every famous writer had to live in a place like New York in order to get that way! I have tried to explain this over and over. I wrote my hugely successful Wobbwing Society books from right here on the Magothy shores, and you all know how that endeavor turned out.
I do like some of Kate’s pictures. And I think she’s a fine little writer. I really do. And now that I think about it, I like quite a lot of her pictures. I like the one of her in Brooklyn, for instance. She looks quite at home there.
I wonder when she will go back.
Now Hal, I’ve told you before you’re too hard on KM. She adds a nice bit of pizzaz to this place and you know it! She’s a pretty little thing too. And I don’t care where she came from – she picked right up on the old iron business, and not many Nagspeakers can see that! You’re still our resident writer; is that what you’re worried about you old fart? I happen to know that KM says the most glowing things about you! She might even see you as a mentor if you were a bit less conde-frigin-sending. Anyway, Annabelle likes her too, even though she’s biased because of the cooper pots and the fact that KM will drink her bathtub gin and talk that ultimate warrior crap.
As for that wedding gown designer you brought up, well she didn’t bat a New York eye when I asked her to make a little pouff for Lucybell. And she was so gracious about the mishap with the pearls! If that’s what they’re like in Brooklyn I say “Come on down. Nagspeak welcomes you and yours!”
Furthermore, I think you’re irritated that KM found that Underwood right under your nose and that’s why you’re all bent out of shape about it! I’ve told you forever to stick to vintage products, but do you listen?