• Change Islands/Fogo Island/Lewisporte Community Connections

  February 24, 2013 - 9 h 19

  Carolyn R. Parsons • correspondent • 571-3470 • carolynrparsons@gmail.com    Weather Connection That’s some snow uh? With drifts as high as my shoulders, swirled and blown into curves and waves high over the back...

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• The View From Fogo Island Father Longergan’s Obituary, Fogo, concluded

  February 20, 2013 - 13 h 10

  By Benson Hewitt Originally, when I began writing this column, and it’s been a few years ago now, I decided to place my email address at the end of each piece, expecting some feedback. There hasn’t been a lot via that particular means, but...

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• The View From Fogo Island James Patrick Howley visits Fogo, 1886

  February 6, 2013 - 10 h 16

  Benson Hewitt

  “Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.”  – John Cleveland In my piece last week I wrote on P.J. Howley’s stop-over in Seldom-Come-By in in 1871, and how I intended to write a piece on...

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• The View From Fogo Island

  January 30, 2013 - 9 h 56

  By Benson Hewitt “What’s in a name?” – Romeo and Juliet For Christmas of this past year I was given the latest in I-pads, and I suppose it’s fair to say that I am already addicted to it.  This little gadget (Dare I call it that?)...

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• The View From Fogo Island

  January 23, 2013 - 14 h 18

  I had intended this week to write a piece on James P. Howley’s visit to Fogo Island in 1886 or thereabouts, but a trivial incident in the past week or so prompted me change directions, (radically, I’m allowing!)  (Howley, by the way, was...

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• The pair of mittens

  January 16, 2013 - 9 h 53

  By Benson Hewitt   I am writing this piece on New Year’s Day and because we are still very much in the midst of Christmas, I thought I’d pursue my Christmas theme a little longer this year. We spent Christmas with our family (which now...

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• The pair of mittens

  January 10, 2013 - 9 h 37

  I am writing this piece on New Year’s Day and because we are still very much in the midst of Christmas, I thought I’d pursue my Christmas theme a little longer this year. We spent Christmas with our family (which now includes five dogs, all of...

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• The View From Fogo Island

  December 12, 2012 - 15 h 57

  “Suppose someone invented an instrument, say a convenient little talking tube, which, say,could be heard over the whole land…” Soren Kierkegaard -1813-1855. In a recent piece that I wrote, I mentioned that the year 1887 was the Golden...

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• The View From Fogo Island

  November 28, 2012 - 18 h 01

  “Life is one long jubilee.”  –Ira Gershwin If I need to, I confess to being a monarchist, but not a real die-hard one now. I suppose it’s fair to say that it, like religion and politics, can be part of one’s DNA.

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• The View From Fogo Island

  November 14, 2012 - 14 h 12

  Around July 1 of each year I write a few pieces about individuals from Fogo Island, who were members of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Around Nov. 11 of each year, Remembrance Day, I write a piece or two of a more general nature, as in the piece...

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