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Midwest
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject: Wolf Willow |
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Canadian content in American autobiography!
The American author, Wallace Stegner, spent a crucial part of his childhood on a homestead in Saskatchewan near East End (?) which appears to have been on the Whitemud River. Wolf Willow talks about his years there and how the experience of growing up on a final frontier shaped his consciousness and writing. I find his story of homesteading in Saskatchewan particularly fascinating since I'm helping someone research a family member who homesteaded near Mazenod, in fact died and was buried there.
The memoir is well worth the read--Stegner could write.
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Nomad
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I've just started reading a book called "Last Of The Donkey Pilgrims" by Kevin O'Hara. He's an American of Irish heritage who decides he has to learn about Ireland to satisfy some itch in his soul. He buys a donkey and cart and sets off on an 8-month tour of Ireland, going around the entire coast. It was mid 1970s, he knew nothing about donkeys, and he had about 100 pounds to his name.
It's delightful. The people he meets are truly wonderful. He stayed in a different farmhouse every night for 8 months and was never once asked for a penny.
I think I may have a touch of his itch myself. |
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Midwest
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You go, Nomad--I believe you'd have a wonderful time. Just think, an inexhaustible supply of Guinness from the Motherland....
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