Profile of Benson Hewitt

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• School's out ... back then
  The view from Fogo Island - Schools here on Fogo Island finished for the summer a few weeks ago now. When we consider what schools are like now, ...
• How Stag Harbour got its name
  The View From Fogo Island - It is my intention to let you all know out there how the places, ponds, hills, etc on Fogo Island came by the name ...
• How Stag Harbour got its name
  The View From Fogo Island - It is my intention to let you all know out there how the places, ponds, hills, etc on Fogo Island came by the name ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  Signs intrigue me. Communities, it seems, vie with each other to advertise themselves, declaring it is 'the crossroads of the world', 'the ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  Signs intrigue me. Communities, it seems, vie with each other to advertise themselves, declaring it is 'the crossroads of the world', 'the ...
• Anyone for a game of hopscotch?
  The View From Fogo Island - Last week I wrote on the game of pedley, a favourite game in rural Newfoundland during pre-confederation days. ...
• Anyone for a game of hopscotch?
  The View From Fogo Island - Last week I wrote on the game of pedley, a favourite game in rural Newfoundland during pre-confederation days. ...
• Anyone for a game of pedley?
  The View From Fogo Island - People of my vintage often say that when we were children we made our own fun, and that we were never bored. But what ...
• Nine times larger, you say?....
  TWILLINGATE - Are they really as big under water as people claim they are? That's the question that many visitors to the Twillingate area this ...
• Anyone for a game of pedley?
  The View From Fogo Island - People of my vintage often say that when we were children we made our own fun, and that we were never bored. But what ...
• Nine times larger, you say?....
  TWILLINGATE - Are they really as big under water as people claim they are? That's the question that many visitors to the Twillingate area this ...
• The tooth (2-2)
  The View From Fogo Island - "It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks." A 'Renoir' Quote I do believe that had we ...
• The tooth (2-2)
  The View From Fogo Island - "It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks." A 'Renoir' Quote I do believe that had we ...
• The old cemetery
  The View From Fogo Island - There were no parks in the community in which I grew up, but we were not lacking in paths and hills that we ...
• The old cemetery
  The View From Fogo Island - There were no parks in the community in which I grew up, but we were not lacking in paths and hills that we ...
• Layman's Cooper Shop
  The view from Fogo Island - Last week I wrote on Lem Anthony's forge here in Fogo and how it was a landmark in Fogo for many, many years, and ...
• Layman's Cooper Shop
  The view from Fogo Island - Last week I wrote on Lem Anthony's forge here in Fogo and how it was a landmark in Fogo for many, many years, and ...
• Lem Anthony's Forge
  The View From Fogo Island - When I came to Fogo first more than a few years ago now, one of the buildings that I would pass on a daily basis near ...
• Lem Anthony's Forge
  The View From Fogo Island - When I came to Fogo first more than a few years ago now, one of the buildings that I would pass on a daily basis near ...
• A nice cup of tea
  The view from Fogo Island - There is no trouble so great that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. - Bernard-Paul Heroux For the last ...
• A nice cup of tea
  The view from Fogo Island - There is no trouble so great that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. - Bernard-Paul Heroux For the last ...
• 'Doors held ajar in a storm' Part 2
  The View from Fogo Island - Last week I tried to write about the ordeal of a crew of six duck hunters from Joe Batt's Arm in making an attempt to ...
• 'Doors held ajar in a storm' Part 2
  The View from Fogo Island - Last week I tried to write about the ordeal of a crew of six duck hunters from Joe Batt's Arm in making an attempt to ...
• Attacked by a polar bear
  The View From Fogo Island - January 22, 1935 was a Tuesday, and in local parlance was known as a 'pot day', and on that particular many of the ...
• Attacked by a polar bear
  The View From Fogo Island - January 22, 1935 was a Tuesday, and in local parlance was known as a 'pot day', and on that particular many of the ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  This, of course, is Easter Week, and, although not as dramatic as Christmas, there is quite a difference between Easter now, and O, so many years ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  This, of course, is Easter Week, and, although not as dramatic as Christmas, there is quite a difference between Easter now, and O, so many years ...
• The robin, first sign of spring
  The view from Fogo Island - The other morning, and a miserably snowy and drizzly one it was, I glanced out through our living-room window and saw ...
• The robin, first sign of spring
  The view from Fogo Island - The other morning, and a miserably snowy and drizzly one it was, I glanced out through our living-room window and saw ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  Sometime recently I was reading an article in the Globe & Mail and the place-name of Joe Batts Arm caught my attention. Further reading revealed ...