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Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs

Below the Bridge

Growing Up on the Southside

by (author) Helen Fogwill Porter

Publisher
Boulder Books
Initial publish date
Oct 2011
Category
Personal Memoirs
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780986537684
    Publish Date
    Oct 2011
    List Price
    $19.95

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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.

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