Profile of Benson Hewitt

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• 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 ...
• The view from Fogo Island
  I have a memory that goes back now more years than I care to remember. It was a pleasant Sunday evening and I was returning home with my father ...
• The view from Fogo Island
  I have a memory that goes back now more years than I care to remember. It was a pleasant Sunday evening and I was returning home with my father ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  The best known landmark on Fogo Island is undoubtedly Brimstone Head. Because the Flat Earth Society has designated it as one of the four ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  The best known landmark on Fogo Island is undoubtedly Brimstone Head. Because the Flat Earth Society has designated it as one of the four ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  It was the early 60s and my brother had just returned from having attended university for a year. Since there were no summer job prospects, he ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  It was the early 60s and my brother had just returned from having attended university for a year. Since there were no summer job prospects, he ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  I begin this piece by quoting, perhaps glibly and undoubtedly loosely, a verse from Exodus in the Bible: I (God) will visit the iniquities of my ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  I begin this piece by quoting, perhaps glibly and undoubtedly loosely, a verse from Exodus in the Bible: I (God) will visit the iniquities of my ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  I had occasion in a previous piece to write about weather lore associated with Candlemas Day. There are others, of course. Sheilas Brush, the ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  I had occasion in a previous piece to write about weather lore associated with Candlemas Day. There are others, of course. Sheilas Brush, the ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  If you were to ask anyone who Captain George Cartwright was, you may not be surprised if he associated him with the community of Cartwright on ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  If you were to ask anyone who Captain George Cartwright was, you may not be surprised if he associated him with the community of Cartwright on ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  A couple of days ago I was in the waiting room of our local hospital and a group of women were discussing the number of icebergs that were off ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  A couple of days ago I was in the waiting room of our local hospital and a group of women were discussing the number of icebergs that were off ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  It is not likely, that for many people today, the name Clementina Fessenden, who was born in Quebec, means anything, yet because of her, Empire ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  It is not likely, that for many people today, the name Clementina Fessenden, who was born in Quebec, means anything, yet because of her, Empire ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  The Church of England clergyman in Fogo in 1894 was Reverend William Charles White, who some years later became the first native-born Lord Bishop ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  The Church of England clergyman in Fogo in 1894 was Reverend William Charles White, who some years later became the first native-born Lord Bishop ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  Last week I concluded my piece on Christopher Cobbs ordeal in 1947 by telling how he was drifting past the Wadam Island, out into the Atlantic ...
• The View From Fogo Island
  Last week I concluded my piece on Christopher Cobbs ordeal in 1947 by telling how he was drifting past the Wadam Island, out into the Atlantic ...