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Newfoundland Fireside Stories

by (author) Jack Fitzgerald

Publisher
Breakwater Books Ltd.
Initial publish date
Jan 1990
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920021781
    Publish Date
    Jan 1990
    List Price
    $9.95

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Description

Newfoundland Fireside Stories is the fourth book in a series of offbeat histories about Newfoundland places, people and historical events. In these stories Fitzgerald continues his research into the strange, the amazing and the almost unbelievable happenings culled from the archives of Newfoundland's history and folklore.

About the author

Jack Fitzgerald was born and educated in St. John's, Newfoundland. During his career he has been a journalist, a feature writer and political columnist with the St. John's Daily News; a reporter and public affairs writer with CJON and VOCM News Services; editor of the Newfoundland Herald and the Newfoundland Chronicle. During the last years of the Smallwood administration he was assistant director of Public Relations with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. He has also worked as Assistance Officer with the Department of Social Services. Jack Fitzgerald also hosted a regular radio program featuring off-beat Newfoundland stories on radio station VOFM.

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