Head-On Collision at Ladysmith

“I’ve written a book.”

This statement, from almost anyone else, would have been no outrageous thing in itself. I heard if often when wearing my publisher-printer hat.

But from this humble man of the soil who’d told me in previous conversations that he’d had but Grade 3 form education...!

What would possess him to begin such an undertaking? That old myth-devil of self-publishing, ‘vanity’? Dreams of writing the Great Canadian Novel?

The answer proved to be much much deeper. There was neither ego nor ambition at work here. The man had a story to tell, one that had driven him since childhood; hence his very personal, almost simplistic, but meaningful title, A Story To Be Told.

And what a story it is.

I’ve told a few stories myself over the years. But in all my historical meanderings, I think this one is unique and among the most poignant and intriguing of them all.

I’ll tell you about it next week in the Chronicles...

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