Approaching Fire Material:Paperback oddities and pictures that sheds

oddities and pictures that sheds light on an age long forgotten in Newfoundland history

and a modicum of happiness

Douglas Gosse

Getting lost is scary

the young and old alike

Approaching Fire Material:Paperback oddities and pictures that shedsIn Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great grandfather, the Mtis fiddler and performer Lon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor. Weaving through multiple genres and traditions, Approaching Fire