The Coterian Retreat - Growing Up in Hamilton, Ohio

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The Coterian Retreat - Growing Up in Hamilton, Ohio

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About Us

About the Book

The Coterian Retreat is a memoir about growing up in Hamilton, Ohio in the 1960s and early 1970s. It is a series of 33 short stories about the usual - and some unusual - things that kids experience while growing up in a Midwestern town. 

About the Author

Tim Simer moved to Hamilton, Ohio in the Fall of 1961 with his Mother, Father and sisters Emily, Becky and Laurie. While living there he dealt with his parents divorce and grew from boy to young man.  He left Hamilton in 1972 to attend college at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana where he met his future wife Liz.

What does Coterian mean?

There is actually no such word! It is derived from the word Coterie. 

(ko 'ta-ree): An intimate group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose. 


Tim's father was a minister and the church called their annual retreat the Coterian Retreat. 

Hence one of the book chapters and the source for the book title!

Reviews

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Bill Rentschler, Author and Journal-News columnist

“Tim Simer...recounts gracefully and vividly those happy

memories of his youth. This is pleasurable reading...”

Jim Blount, Butler County Historian

 “This is more than a book about Timothy S. Simer’s boyhood

in the 1960s and early 1970s. It is a Hamilton story.

It is about familiar people, places and events in the city.”

Janet Davies, ABC-TV 7 - Chicago

 “It’s a story that can open the floodgates of memory for

anyone coming of age during the ‘60s and ‘70s...Tim’s

personal revelations of growing up in that time and place

are touching in their candor and universal to adolescence."

Contact Us

Drop Tim a line!

You can also reach us at

Tim Simer

1122 N Dearborn St, 22H, Chicago, IL 60610, US

(312) 404-3962

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