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A fictionalized biographical story set in the Temiskaming area in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
The Cobalt fire, Lake Temiskaming school canoe trip tragedy, Matachewan asbestos mine closing, the Ed Havrot 'case of goof' incident, New Liskeard mayor declaring "we're not going to air our dirty laundry in public" all occurred during Don Curry's time as editor of the Temiskaming Speaker from 1975-1978. The author combines these real events with fictional ones to weave a story of 1970s life in the Tri-Towns of Cobalt, Haileybury and New Liskeard. Library intrigue and journalism in the post-Watergate era before the internet and social media, when journalists were actually respected.
The story moves to North Bay with his decision to teach journalism at Canadore College in 1978, where he has a Globe and Mail death-bed interview with the notorious mayor, Merle Dickerson, records a tall apartment building being blown up for CBC Radio, brings in noted journalists such as Knowlton Nash and Peter Mansbridge as college guest speakers, and takes his journalism class to meet former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in his Centre Block office suite, just months before he died.
About the Author Table of Contents
ISBN:978-1-998656-46-2 | WMPub#1074 | 6" x 9" 266 pages, Trade Paperback | $24.95
About the Author
Don Curry, who was born in Saskatchewan, has lived in British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec, Ontario, England and Germany. A graduate of Carleton University, Central Michigan University, and the University of British Columbia, he was a newspaper reporter, photographer and editor with various newspapers, including the Temiskaming Speaker from 1975 to 1978, when he left to become the journalism program coordinator at Canadore College in North Bay. He later became the college's Director of Public Affairs, and then moved on to co-found the Canadian Centre of Social Justice and Young People's Press in North Bay. Later he worked with the North Bay and Timmins & District Multicultural Centres, before becoming a licensed immigration consultant.
Table of Contents
5 Dedication
8 Prologue
12 PART ONE
13 Chapter 1: New Editor in Town
25 Chapter 2: “Dirty Laundry in Public”
39 Chapter 3: Woodward and Bernstein
49 Chapter 4: Meet The Neighbours
58 Chapter 5: Arnold Peters Drops In
63 Chapter 6: It’s Asbestos…What Could Go Wrong?
68 Chapter 7: American Woman
75 Chapter 8: Tension At the Library
89 Chapter 9: Eileen Twain Performs
97 Chapter 10: “Can You Get to Timmins in An Hour?”
100 Chapter 11: Library Board Gets Nervous
107 Chapter 12: “A Case of Goof”
111 Chapter 13: “We Feed That to the Pigs”
114 Chapter 14: Library Tension Increases
117 Chapter 15: Road Trip Across Canada
122 Chapter 16: “A Vivacious Blonde with Movie Star Looks”
127 Chapter 17: No Time for a Pee
139 Chapter 18: Wild Hockey Parent
143 Chapter 19: Good Speech But No Win
145 Chapter 20: Bigots Have Their Day
149 Chapter 21: Long Drive for a Burger
152 Chapter 22: Call The Cops
158 Chapter 23: Cobalt’s on Fire
173 Chapter 24: Economic Activity in the Region
176 Chapter 25: Tragedy on Lake Temiskaming
180 Chapter 26: -The Air Is Purer Here
185 Chapter 27: Teacher Talk
192 PART TWO
193 Chapter 28: North Bay Is Calling
199 Chapter 29: Canadore College
218 Chapter 30: Journalism Students Hit the Road
230 Chapter 31: Life on the Lake
237 Chapter 32: Canadian Ecology Centre
239 Chapter 33: A Phone Call From Up North
243 APPENDIX
244 Chapter 34: The Immigration Guy
264 IN MEMORIAM