Meet Linda
Linda Hobbet describes her life as eclectic. She was born in Iowa and grew up in Wisconsin. While Linda was in college, double-majoring in art and zoology, her family moved to Durham, NC. After graduation and a short stint as a receptionist at a local TV station she worked at the Duke Primate Center observing lemurs and then at a Rockefeller University field station in upstate New York, analyzing chimpanzee vocalizations and video taken at Gombe Stream in Africa, using a Ubiquitous Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer (she got a kick out of rattling off that name). In the mid-70’s she moved to Berkeley, California with her boy-friend, later husband, who was working on a PhD in animal behavior.
In California, Linda started working for a geotechnical company doing graphics and technical illustration, which she learned on the fly. Among other projects they sent her to Alaska, from November to April, where she plotted the projected flow of possible oil spills on the Alaska pipeline. While there she took a class in dog sledding at the University extension school, rode a train from Anchorage to Fairbanks, was awed by the Northern Lights, and volunteered at the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
She also spent half a year in Serengeti, Tanzania with her husband, studying African Wild Dogs. It included a fascinating stay at Mary Leakey’s camp in Olduvai Gorge and night riding in Lake Manyara Park observing elephants with Iain Douglas-Hamilton.
In California, Linda started working for a geotechnical company doing graphics and technical illustration, which she learned on the fly. Among other projects they sent her to Alaska, from November to April, where she plotted the projected flow of possible oil spills on the Alaska pipeline. While there she took a class in dog sledding at the University extension school, rode a train from Anchorage to Fairbanks, was awed by the Northern Lights, and volunteered at the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
She also spent half a year in Serengeti, Tanzania with her husband, studying African Wild Dogs. It included a fascinating stay at Mary Leakey’s camp in Olduvai Gorge and night riding in Lake Manyara Park observing elephants with Iain Douglas-Hamilton.
Lola the Airedale
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Linda
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Gimli the Sealyham
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Seeking a new challenge in the early 80’s Linda took a six-month course in computer programming and started working for the telephone company, first on a huge mainframe application and later designing and developing internal Internet applications.
In 2004 Linda moved to Athens, GA. More recently she has returned to her artistic roots, doing ceramic sculptures of animals. She has been keenly interested in dogs (and animals in general) since childhood and currently lives with Lola, a 13-year-old Airedale Terrier and Gimli, a 3-year-old Sealyham Terrier.
In 2004 Linda moved to Athens, GA. More recently she has returned to her artistic roots, doing ceramic sculptures of animals. She has been keenly interested in dogs (and animals in general) since childhood and currently lives with Lola, a 13-year-old Airedale Terrier and Gimli, a 3-year-old Sealyham Terrier.
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Linda enjoyed each of her careers and is excited to pursue the next stage at Village Hearth. She looks forward to sharing her passions with the other residents and learning about theirs. At the beginning of 2018, Linda made the move to Durham to be more involved and to be ready to move in when construction is complete.