She is working at the Eastern Townships Resource Centre for the 2026 aestival season. Over the years, people joined and left Hopper’s band, known as Sam Hopper and His Hoedowners, or appeared in cameos as the band travelled to different towns. The Sam Hopper universe, as we like to call it, shows a web of connections between Townshippers and music that slowly unfurls into a rabbit hole of interlinked people, some lost to the whims of time and others risen to illustriousness. Of course, we must first address the very man who has thrown us into this research, Sam Hopper. It is only four years later, when he was 19 years old, that he began playing with Sam Hopper for gigs at Burrough’s Falls.