I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.

I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.