Fatfingers

In 1754 Emil “Fatfingers” Gaspard was a struggling carpenter in Arcadia, Nova Scotia. That year the British, in that tasteless manner so prevalent among conquerors and empire builders, decreed that all French people had to leave the province. The Brits thought they were doing their own English settlers a big favor, but were actually condemning them to centuries of bad food and insipid color schemes. There were many other negative effects of this policy, the poem “Evangeline” being only the ...