Serendipities Of A Nomad's Life

In Case You Missed It: Canadian Goverment Muzzles its scientists People who know the Harper government will not be surpruised by accusations that his government is muzzling government scientists – whose work is paid for by the people of Canada -  in order to control the message about controversial subjects such as oil sands, climate [...]

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There was a time when books about business companies were staid and boring and read only by other historians.  That age passed when popular authors such as Canadian Peter C. Newman wrote their biographies of some of the great companies of the world.  Newman’s claim to fame, in this realm, is his two volume history [...]

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It’s what no sailor with a sailboat wants to do voluntarily —  taking down our masts to make a journey.  If we did. we wouldn’t have sailboats. Yet after a spectacular journey this summer with both masts down, I can heartily recommend a transit through the Trent Severn Waterway – from Trenton, on Lake Ontario, [...]

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In the 1940′s American-born Willard (Kitchener) MacDonald jumped his troop train heading to WWII. Fearing authorities he lived as a Hermit deep in the northern wilderness of Nova Scotia, Canada, for more than 60 years. This is the true story of The Hermit of Gully Lake, a man who lived a life that the rest [...]

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Here’s the trailer made ahead of the documentary “Willard, Hermit of Gully Lake”  who jumped a troop train in Nova Scotia, Canada, rather than go to war in 1942 and who subsequently took up residence in the woods. Willard, who was born in Massachusetts in 1916,  died in 2004, after living 60 years in the [...]

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