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1950s: A town of two sides, two shades, many stories.
Town Is by the Sea
What you need to know before your trail
This book shows the striking contrast between a sparkling seaside day and the darkness underground where the miners dig. This beautifully understated and haunting story brings a piece of mining history to life. The ever-present ocean and inevitable pattern of life in a mining town will enthral children and move adult readers, as a young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather’s grave after lunch and comes home to a cosy dinner with his family, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea
Travel Guide
Cape Breton
Cape Breton
Author’s note:
“If you were a boy in the mining towns of Cape Breton – or indeed, a child in any mining town in the world – during the late 1800s and early 1900s, you might well have faced the hour days in the harsh ,dangerous and dark reality underground. Decades later, the life of these towns still revolved around the mines. Even into the 1950s around the time whern this story takes place, boys of high- school age, carrying on the traditions of their fathers and grandfathers ,continued to see their future working in the mines.
“This was the legacy of a mining town”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Town Is by the Sea
Destination : Cape Breton Author/Guide: Joanne Schwartz Departure Time: 1950s
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