You, My People

I was born and raised on a small Island off the East Coast of Newfoundland, Canada, known as Flat Island. Flat Island only had a population of approx. 80 people and fishing was the main means of making a living. There was a one room school there, with K.G. to grade 9, I only got as far as the 7th grade officially, and at the age of 12, due to the lack of qualified teachers in small isolated communities, I quit school and went fishing with my father . I fished for ten years before leaving th...