Profile of Benson Hewitt

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• 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 ...
• It's all in the giving
  How many times have we been told that Christmas is all about giving? The good book itself tells us "it's more blessed to give than to receive!" ...
• It's all in the giving
  How many times have we been told that Christmas is all about giving? The good book itself tells us "it's more blessed to give than to receive!" ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  I am remembering a line from the old language book that I used when I took (that was the word we used back then!) Grade 11: God gave us memories ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  I am remembering a line from the old language book that I used when I took (that was the word we used back then!) Grade 11: God gave us memories ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  One of the appealing things tourists and other people find interesting about Newfoundland is our unique place names, and whenever there is a list ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  One of the appealing things tourists and other people find interesting about Newfoundland is our unique place names, and whenever there is a list ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  I am writing this on Remembrance Day and I have watched on TV a goodly share of the ceremonies both in Ottawa and the re-telecast of the ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  I am writing this on Remembrance Day and I have watched on TV a goodly share of the ceremonies both in Ottawa and the re-telecast of the ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  The other day I was listening to Buddy Wassisname sing a song called, I believe, By the Glow of the Kerosene Light. For some reason or another, ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  The other day I was listening to Buddy Wassisname sing a song called, I believe, By the Glow of the Kerosene Light. For some reason or another, ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  This is the 31st of October, All Souls' Day, or more commonly known these days as Halloween. Actually that word itself means All Hallow's Eve; in ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  This is the 31st of October, All Souls' Day, or more commonly known these days as Halloween. Actually that word itself means All Hallow's Eve; in ...
• William Cull, Explorer, Barr'd Islands
  I have written in another medium about my climbing at least twice a day during my growing up years in Barr'd Islands a somewhat treacherous hill ...
• William Cull, Explorer, Barr'd Islands
  I have written in another medium about my climbing at least twice a day during my growing up years in Barr'd Islands a somewhat treacherous hill ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  Going on 80 years ago three men from Fogo had an adventure on the high seas that equals, and in many cases surpasses, those of some of the great ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  Going on 80 years ago three men from Fogo had an adventure on the high seas that equals, and in many cases surpasses, those of some of the great ...
• For the love of animals
  October 4 is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, and I promised our dog Jack that I would write a piece on pets and ...
• For the love of animals
  October 4 is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, and I promised our dog Jack that I would write a piece on pets and ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  About a year ago I wrote a piece on our dog, Jack. Someone met me around that time and wondered when I was going to write about myself. I suspect ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  About a year ago I wrote a piece on our dog, Jack. Someone met me around that time and wondered when I was going to write about myself. I suspect ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  Most of you on Fogo Island know one Gerald Hart. He it is that reads your meter every month in all kinds of winds and weather. Some day he should ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  Most of you on Fogo Island know one Gerald Hart. He it is that reads your meter every month in all kinds of winds and weather. Some day he should ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  By the time you read this all children on Fogo Island, like in most other places in the province, will be back to school. Several things on TV ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  By the time you read this all children on Fogo Island, like in most other places in the province, will be back to school. Several things on TV ...
• Neither here nor there
  Down on the beach in front of the house our resident spotted sandpipers have started to behave in unaccustomed ways. These are the same birds we ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  I would never presume myself qualified to write a review on any book, although like anyone who reads, there are times when you do express an ...
• Neither here nor there
  Down on the beach in front of the house our resident spotted sandpipers have started to behave in unaccustomed ways. These are the same birds we ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  I would never presume myself qualified to write a review on any book, although like anyone who reads, there are times when you do express an ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  A few weeks ago I wrote about a John MacDonald, a planter in Tilting around 1790, and about his attacking some Beothuks in the vicinity of the ...