From: David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com>
Newsgroups: alt.arts.storytelling, alt.folklore, nf.general, nf.arts, can.media.radio, alt.radio.networks.cbc
Subject: Re: Ted Russell's Pigeion Inlet stories -- a digital archive
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 23:40:21 -0230
Organization: Eternal September
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 Russellâs 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.â
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.
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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)
âAnd 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)