"English Jack", the Hermit of the White Mountains

This ROC was discovered at Clark's Trading Post. I'm really excited about it because its so obscure that there are only a few references to it online, and not one of them has any details close to what I saw at the Trading Post Museum. This also means I have no sources to link and nothing to double check to verify its validity, so forgive me if I'm a tad off on anything. Any information anyone has about Jack, I would greatly appriciate.

A long time ago, probably during the 20's or so, there was a man from a tragic childhood in London. He settled down in Crawford Notch, NH. But he didn't settle down like you might think: he had no officially owned property, no regular job, and no friends. "English Jack", as they used to call him, was a Hermit. He lived by himself up in the white mountains. He built a rickety shack from scrap wood he scavenged from the surrounding area.

He was a fascinating man, and despite his sought after seclusion, he became known for his eccentric ways. He was a poet, a musician, a craftsman- and a bear tamer. He was the first person in recorded history in the North East to train a black bear. He kept it as his pet and sole companion.

People would come to see him so much, that he finally decided to play into it. He would take money from people to tell them his life story, which he sometimes did in the form of a long poem. He would do a bear show for the visitors. He even decided to embrace his image as a freak amongst the tourists- one of the stranger things he would do for money was bite the head off of a snake... or even a chicken, if the price was right.

He built crafts and whittled small wooden keep-sakes during the winter. When the weather warmed up and people would come back, he would sell off as many of the knick-knacks as he could to the tourists. He even made post cards- mostly of himself, along with the view from his shack.

English Jack may have lived a very colorful and strange life, but no one could argue that he didn't live it to the fullest.

Here's to English Jack, the hermit- Craftsman, artist, business man, animal trainer and poet. His peculiar imprint on the culture has never been duplicated.