Talk About the Maritimes

The homey comforts of winter, the pleasures of planting a garden in May, a look at life in a lumber camp, ghostly apparitions in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, the excitement of the spring smelt run--these are some of the topics covered in this eloquent series of essays from Norman Creighton. The author's obvious fascination and love for the Maritime countryside, and his fondness for the seasonal beauty of his native Annapolis Valley, are readily apparent in the various stories recounted here. Creighton's CBC Radio broadcasts connected stonrgly with his listeners during his five decades on the air, which included the heyday of radio--the 1940s and '50s.

Few people knew Norman Creighton as the man behind the poopular series "The Gillans," yet his personal chats and memories for CBC Maritime Magazine and Radio were extremely popular and accurate pieces about times in the past when life was simpler.

This anthology of Creighton's best radio talks is taken from the collection compiled and broadcast during his later career in the 1960s and '70s. Creighton lived most of his life in Hantsport, Nova Scotia.