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Long Ago and Far Away: A Miramichi Family Memoir
Wayne Curtis was born and raised in the rural Miramichi community of Keenan. A high school dropout, he has worked at many jobs in the woods and in factories, including six years with General Motors. He has also been a storekeeper and a river guide. Returning to school during his adult years, he took night courses to get his high school diploma, followed by three years of university, eventually earning an honorary doctorate from St. Thomas University. Wayne has written for The Globe and Mail and The National Post and is the author of three novels, four books of short stories and a screenplay for the CBC. Long Ago and Far Away is his thirteenth book.
237 pages, Paperback
Published October 6, 2010
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March 3, 2018
A masterful memoir by one of New Brunswick's finest writers. Nostalgic, yes, but not without lessons learned and choices made. "We could not have lived for history," he concludes. Perhaps you have to be from rural New Brunswick to fully understand his past, his father's and his grandfather's. The world outside was moving forward and horse and wagon was still the only way to get from place to place. His mother's saying that"the good old days" weren't worth two cents has a lifetime of hardscrabble existence to back them up. Still, there were some good times and moments of humour to be had. In short, we have a lovingly wrought time capsule of a time long ago and far away on the Miramichi.
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