• The View From Fogo Island

  November 23, 2011 - 12 h 14

  Some of you reading this may remember translating from Latin to English Caesar’s Gallic Wars, and that the first line was “All Gaul is divided into three parts” and ever since then, it seems, it has been fashionable to divide things into...

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• The View From Fogo Island

  November 16, 2011 - 10 h 58

  “She sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief.” Shakespeare – Twelfth Night We have removed ourselves for a season or so to the have-not province of Ontario, and although we have two daughters in this area, we have our own space,...

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• The View From Fogo Island

  November 2, 2011 - 13 h 08

  Around this time of the year one’s thoughts turn to goblins, and witches, and spirits. I am, myself, partial to spirits, and will be terribly disappointed if one of these days it is proven that they don’t, and never did exist.

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• 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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• Neither here not there

  August 31, 2011 - 11 h 25

  As I listened to the radio recently, I was overwhelmed by the emotion in myself created by the emotion in the messages of callers phoning in to speak about Jack Layton.

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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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