Elisabeth Gifford writes about the link between Scottish whalers and the Inuit people living on the Arctic Atlantic coasts, which is a major theme in her latest book, A Woman Made of Snow. The Arctic Bar in Dundee is an unprepossessing pub with a modern frontage, but inside the dusty harpoon guns and photographs of […]
The Graveyard of Lake Ontario
Janet Kellough on the mysterious phenomena of Lake Ontario’s ‘Bermuda Triangle’. Right at the eastern end of Lake Ontario where North America’s Great Lakes spill into the St. Lawrence River lies an area that has been dubbed “The Graveyard of Lake Ontario” because of the extraordinary number of ships that have gone to the bottom […]
The County Ain’t Quaint
Janet Kellough on how local history and community inspired a career in performance storytelling. I live in a very peculiar little corner of the world, on an island that dangles from the north shore of Lake Ontario. Officially its name is Prince Edward County, but everybody calls it “The County”. Capital “T”. Capital “C”. As […]