Description
Newfoundland Fireside Stories is the fourth book in a series of offbeat histories about Newfoundland places, people and historical events. In these stories Fitzgerald continues his research into the strange, the amazing and the almost unbelievable happenings culled from the archives of Newfoundland's history and folklore.
About the author
Jack Fitzgerald was born and educated in St. John's, Newfoundland. During his career he has been a journalist, a feature writer and political columnist with the St. John's Daily News; a reporter and public affairs writer with CJON and VOCM News Services; editor of the Newfoundland Herald and the Newfoundland Chronicle. During the last years of the Smallwood administration he was assistant director of Public Relations with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. He has also worked as Assistance Officer with the Department of Social Services. Jack Fitzgerald also hosted a regular radio program featuring off-beat Newfoundland stories on radio station VOFM.
Other titles by
Hell's Flames to Heaven's Gate
A History of the Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland
Regatta
A New History
Jack Fitzgerald's Treasury of Newfoundland Stories, Volume III
Classic Spy Tales and Epic Sea Adventures
Rum-runners and Mobsters
Prohibition's 100th Anniversary in Newfoundland
Treasury of Newfoundland Stories Volume II
Amazing and Strange
Jack Fitzgerald's Treasury of Newfoundland Stories, Volume I
True Crime and Adventure
Peculiar Facts and Tales of Newfoundland
1949
The Twilight Before the Dawn
Spring Rice Document, The
Newfoundland at War 1914 - 1918
Battlefront Newfoundland
Britain's Oldest Colony at War, 1939-1945