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(Moon and Monolith, by Barbara Pratt. Image courtesy Emma Butler Gallery.)
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -George Bernard Shaw “Ah, NewFOUNDland! Sure they speak Gaelic there, don’t they?”…
There’s a very ugly beach near my grandfather’s house on Prince Edward Island. It was never beautiful, but it looked better when I was a kid. There were long sandbars…
NQ: Where and when were you born? PTC: I was born on a sheep farm in the tiny Hamlet of The Highlands in the Codroy Valley area of the province…