I'm currently campaigning as an independent candidate for State Representative of Falmouth, Dukes, and Nantucket in the November 2016 election.

www.tobiasglidden.com

I'm a lifelong Nantucketer and former Selectman, a stonemason, small business owner and fishmonger for our family-owned (since 1898) fish market.

I'm passionate about affordable housing, mental health and substance abuse, water quality and sustainable energy/ transportation issues.

PHILOSOPHY

Roll with the motion of the ocean.
Be at peace.
Be fearless
Be free
See the problem that others do not and fix it.
Subtly is the joy of life those who do not see it do not see.

Life is like a coin when on side faces up the other faces down. You
are but the metal in the middle.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would like to bring people together through food and local politics. Due to my present location I can not offer housing. So I ask for it in exchange for my humble services in whatever be required of me.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

This will be the first time for me. I am very excited to meet the great many people that are out there.

Interests

Affordable housing, mental health and substance abuse, water quality and sustainable energy/ transportation issues.

Biking - Housing - Architecture

Food - Farming - Community

Creating a viable future for mankind.

• architecture
• dining
• cooking
• clothing
• drawing
• woodworking
• cycling
• sailing

Music, Movies, and Books

. Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
. Waldon, Henry David Thoreau
. Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
. Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
. Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller
. Don Quixote, Cervantes
. The Wump World, Bill Peet
. The Coming Insurrection, The invisible Committee
. The World With Out Us, Alan Weisman
. Sand And Foam, Khalil Gibran
. Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
. Peace Pilgram, (unknown)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Youngest elected Selectman for Nantucket Island
Climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro
Sailed the Eastern Seaboard
Biked across Europe

Teach, Learn, Share

I would love to teach: Bike repair, woodworking, building, sailing, cooking

I would love to learn: piano