BOBBI ANN
"Bobbi Ann is 57 years old and the proud owner of Paradise, a 53 square mile island off the coast of Nantucket. Looking around at her new surroundings, it is hard to believe how far she has come in life.
For the past 20 years, Bobbi Ann has been the biggest name in chilren’s fiction, writing over 50 bestselling titles, such as The Posies Oppossum Series and the Fairy Books. Merchandising alone has allowed Bobbi Ann to finally lead the kind of life she has always dreamed of.
Married for the first time at age 17, the short marriage ended in 1986 leaving Bobbi Ann a single mother of two young girls under the age of four. A sessession of minimum wage jobs finally lead her to persue a teaching degree from the prestiages Midway College.
During her four year college education, Bobbi Ann began dating her second husband. He was a tremendous help to Bobbi Ann while she studied for exams and wrote term papers. When Bobbi Ann graduated with her Bachelor’s in Education, she was 28 years old and had married her new sweetheart the week before.
For the next ten years, Bobbi Ann taught five grade English at the local elementary school. Although she loved teaching her small pupils, Bobbi Ann’s true passion was writing. She became interested in writing children’s fiction while taking a creative writing class at Midway. With the help of her young students, Bobbi Ann worked on a story that would turn into the Posie Opposum Series. Each day, after lunch, the class would hold a 15 minute impromptu lesson on what young adults would like to read.
Bobbi Ann’s first book was entitled, Posie Opposum Goes To School. It was about a young opossum named Posie and all the problems she had with going to a new school. With the help of her classroom students, Bobbi Ann became an almost overnight success in the realm of young adult fiction.
Bobbi Ann’s family expanded to include another daughter during the couples third year of marriage. By now, Bobbi Ann’s oldest daughters were nine and eleven years old.
With the publication of the fourth book in the Posie Opossum Series, Bobbi had retired from her teaching job and was writing fulltime. Her husband had also been able to quit his job and he had started a video service which also included their youngest daughter. Bobbi Ann’s oldest two daughter were out on their own, and Bobbi Ann was proud to be able to buy the girls their first homes.
When Bobbi Ann turned 55, she lost the love of her life, her wonderful husband of almost 28 years, to a heart attack. For an entire year, Bobbi Ann secluded herself in her home. She refused to go shopping or out to eat or even to the movies. Her three girls were scattered across the state and she only got to see them on holidays.
During the second year after her husband’s death, Bobbi Ann decided her life needed a change. Thanks to her successful writing career, she had more than enough money in the bank and she decided it was time to give back to her community.
She bought Paradise Island for 17.3 million dollars. She spent another three million constructing her private compound on the island. Several large windmills help generate electricity, as do several dozen solar panels. The two thousand square foot house is not huge, but it is much larger than her old home. The house is heated with geothermal and radiant heat. There is a natural spring near the creek for fresh water, but because she wanted to be self sufficient, Bobbi Ann had two additional wells drilled to provide clean water.
The house is situated in a large plateau near the creek with thick, dense woods anchoring the back and both sides of the house. There is a small stable for her two horses, a goat house for her five goats, a turkey house and a chicken coup. There is a vegetable plot, as well as a fruit plot, and a brand new “root cellar” for Bobbi Ann to store vegetables and canned goods."
© Bobbi Rightmyer
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