Cover Story: Off The Beaten Path
My latest for Downhome magazine, take a trip to Quirpon Island, the northernmost point of the island of Newfoundland.
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Book Review: Karsten Heuer’s Being Caribou (2005)
A review of Karsten Heuer’s Being Caribou (2005)
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The Danger Tree artfully combines family memoir and historical nonfiction. Just as author, David Macfarlane, introduces readers to his maternal family, the Goodyears of Newfoundland, he establishes the major events of the early twentieth century. The event Macfarlane most prominently features is the First World War. For the Goodyears, WWI means “three dead sons paraded […]
Read More Book Review: David Macfarlane’s The Danger Tree (2014)Recounting a Shipwreck No one Survived to Tell
Six men boarded the 72-foot fishing vessel the Andrea Gail intended for a late season fishing trip that would end catastrophically. In late October 1991, aware that a storm was brewing, the captain and crew decided to take their swordfish catch and head home from the Grand Banks to Gloucester, Massachusetts. The mother of all […]
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