Author of the Professor Hardcore Series
about william
Faculty Emeritus William C. Horne (aka Professor Hardcore) retired fully in 2009 after teaching 36 years at Salisbury University in MD and, previous to that, four years at the University of Michigan-Flint. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 and his BA from Gettysburg College in 1964.
Now 82 years old, he has been married to Susan since 1963 and has two children (Shelley and David) and four grandchildren. At Salisbury University, he was advisor of the Outdoor Club for 22 years and a faculty trail crew leader in the Algonquin Freshman Orientation in the Wilderness for 20 summers.
Since retirement, he has played euphonium in several bands and brass ensembles and sung in the University Chorale. In 2003 he completed a 28-year section hike of the AT.
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Professor Hardcore’s 28-Year Appalachian Trail Section Hike
My AT section hike began in 1975 with an impulsive and poorly planned climb up Katahdin on the Hunt Trail with my two younger brothers and my 11-year-old daughter. Twenty-eight years later, in November of 2003, a week before going into Johns Hopkins Hospital to have my severe spine curvature stabilized by titanium rods, I finished my last two uncompleted sections: two miles near Swatara Gap and the Delaware River Bridge. (..more)
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Marriage Poems and Satires 1670 to 1800: Facsimile Reproductions with an Introduction by William C. Horne. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1986.
Making a Heaven of Hell: The Problem of the Companionate Ideal in Marriage Poetry, 1650-1800. Athens: U. of Georgia P, 1993.
Articles Treating Nature and Wilderness Topics:
“Samuel Johnson Discovers the Arctic: A Reading of a ‘Greenland Tale’ as Arctic Literature.” Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism. Ed. Karla Ambruster and Kathleen Wallace. Charlottesville: U P of Virginia, 2001.
“Eighteenth-Century Accounts of Hudson’s Bay and The Phenomenology of Samuel Hearne’s Journey (1795).” The East-Central Intelligencer. N,S. 15 (2001): 3-7.
“The Phenomenology of Samuel Hearne’s Journey to the Coppermine River (1795): Learning the Arctic.” Ethics, Place, & Environment: A Journal of Philosophy and Geography. 8 (2005): 39-59.