• The View From Fogo Island

  October 5, 2011 - 10 h 47

  By Benson Hewitt This past week my wife and I were invited to a story-telling session in the old Orange Lodge in Barr’d Islands. There were a dozen or more of us in attendance and we sat around in a circle, more or less, and listened to...

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• The View From Fogo Island

  September 29, 2011 - 11 h 07

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• The View From Fogo Island

  September 22, 2011 - 10 h 52

  We shall one day learn to supersede Politics by Education - Emerson Politics is in the air again in this province and that fact has prompted me to write this piece.

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• The Canons on Hewitt’s Point

  September 7, 2011 - 16 h 14

  Alert! There is a play on words.

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• Fogo, 1907

  August 10, 2011 - 12 h 05

  Just a few days ago I was reading an edition of the Daily News, 1907, and found some news from Fogo. Thus, I’d like to share with you what was happening here on Fogo Island then. It was written on Nov. 18.

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• The View From Fogo Island

  August 3, 2011 - 11 h 05

  In a recent piece I told you how ‘a smear of artists’ descended on Fogo Island and what a time we all had. One of them, knowing that I was originally from Barr’d Islands, inquired of me how it got its name. Since that might have been the...

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• The View From Fogo Island

  July 28, 2011 - 10 h 01

  Today there are 10 or so communities that make up the newly incorporated town of Fogo Island. If, however, you were to go back in time to less than 100 years ago, there would have been perhaps close to a dozen more: Eastern Tickle, Lion’s Den,...

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• The View From Fogo Island

  July 20, 2011 - 12 h 51

  Many people today may not be aware that shipbuilding was one of the first industries in Norris Arm quite a few years ago now.

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• The View From Fogo Island

  July 13, 2011 - 12 h 15

  I am fascinated with collective nouns that are used to describe people, animals, etcetera; for example, ‘a murder of crows’, ‘a school of fish’, ‘a chin of beards’, the list goes on, and some of them are quite strange.

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• The View From Fogo Island

  June 29, 2011 - 15 h 10

  On Saturday of this week, July 1, we commemorate the Battle of Beaumont Hamel. Briefly the Royal Newfoundland Regiment made their unsuccessful attack during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. This battle was the regiment’s first major...

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