Newfoundland Fireside Stories
- Publisher
- Breakwater Books Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1990
- Category
- General
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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.