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   David Dalton to All   
   Re: Ted Russell's Pigeion Inlet stories    
   27 Mar 25 23:40:21   
   
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   XPost: alt.arts.storytelling, alt.folklore, nf.general   
   XPost: nf.arts, alt.radio.networks.cbc   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Mar 27, 2025, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2D9637190015F51070000CAE538F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > https://kellyrussell.ca/ted-russells-pigeon-inlet/   
   >   
   > "Welcome to Ted Russell's Pigeon Inlet   
   > a digital archive   
   >   
   > Introduction   
   >   
   > Pigeon Inlet is the setting for Ted Russell’s stories, written for radio   
   > between 1953 and 1961. Here you will meet not only Uncle Mose, but other   
   > characters whose names have become synonymous with traditional outport life:   
   > Grampa and Grandma Walcott, Skipper Joe, Aunt Sophy, Jethro Noddy and, of   
   > course, King David. Told with a combination of humour and respect and in a   
   > manner that captures the essence of folk narrative, these stories stand as a   
   > monument to the dignity of the outport Newfoundlander.”   
      
   Oops, I misspelled Pigeon in the Subject line. My newsreader   
   Hogwasher flags misspelled words in the body but not in   
   the Subject line.   
      
   Feel free to pass this on.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;   
   And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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