Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
Below the Bridge
Growing Up on the Southside
- Publisher
- Boulder Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2011
- Category
- Personal Memoirs
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780986537684
- Publish Date
- Oct 2011
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
A colourful memoir of growing up on the Southside Road in St. Johns, Newfoundland, during the 1930s and 1940s. Porter brings to life the lost community of her childhood, and introduces us to the vibrant characters who lived there - longshoremen, housewives, sailors, coopers, midwives, and even a few prostitutes.
About the author
Helen Fogwill Porter #&40;b. 1939) was born in Newfoundland and lives in St. John's. "One Saturday#&34; appeared in The Pottersfield Portfolio (1983) and was included in her collection, A Long and Lonely Ride (Breakwater, 1991#&41;. A memoir, Below the Bridge, appeared in 1980 (Breakwater#&41;, and she was honoured with the Newfoundland and Labrador Lifetime Acheivement Award in 1993.