Description
94 pages, black and white, paperback
5.5″ x 8.5″, perfect bound
ISBN # 978-1-9994370-0-8
Poems and Lyrics by a Super-Centenarian
$9.95 CAD
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(I Needed the Quiet)
Garvie Samson’s 4th edition of poems penned in both French and English by a Cape Breton teaching-nun, who lived throughout three centuries (1891-2004), two months short of her 114th birthday.
Through poetry, Sr. Annie expresses the challenges of being a French Acadian teaching in an English school system, and her success of using poetry and song to teach Geography and English.
Having taught classes of up to 118 pupils in Cheticamp, Sr. Annie was a truly remarkable individual who recounts her life’s memories through poetry. She references in particular her struggles adhering to religious commitments while longing to be with family in Cape Breton.
