I was born the year the war started. My mother told me once that she
The Wages of War
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Which Is The New Iceland?
When I was growing up in Gimli, Manitoba, that is, the capital of New Iceland, Iceland was a distant and storied place. During the war years, 1939-45, Iceland was an important strategic location, a permanent battle ship and aircraft carrier in the North Sea. Travel there was restricted largely to the military, first the British and then the Americans.
After the war, there were a few Icelanders who came to New Iceland. There were regarded as rather exotic creatures, sort of the way polar bears are when they drift onto land on ice floes.
A lot of people, including many of my relatives, spoke Icelandic. However, the tight, insular world of New Iceland, had started to break down. People who weren
Icelandic Celebration Parade
Here are a couple of Vikings guarding the entrance to the parade marshaling grounds. If the Viking ships had crew like these, they could have conquered whole armies by just sending them ashore and having them say
The Icelandic Festival began today. There’ll be four days of music, speeches, sand castle building, races, beach volleyball. There’ll be an impressive Icelandic women’s choir called Kvennak
Fagrabakka
Graveyards, oooohhhhhh, spooky places when I was a kid. The only spookier place was the undertakers. If I had to go past either, I got to the other side of the street or the road, moved quickly and, sometimes, whistled. I
Gimli Film Festival: Bloodflowers2
Most film makers spend more time raising money than they do making films. Budget looms over their heads in development, pre-production, production and post-production. The less money they have to raise, the better chance of getting the film made. That
On loving our community
My mother became a Credit Union manager quite by accident.
My father had gone to the local bank to borrow two hundred dollars to finance his commercial fishing for the fall season. The bank turned him down. The bank manager was quite straight forward about the reason. He said it wasn
