From the story Blood Moon:

When we were children living on the island, Father used to tell us a strange story about a will left by the owner of the Big House, as he called it. At the time, I thought a will was a letter that dead people sent from Heaven saying what they wished us to do with all their old clothes, pocketknives, chewing tobacco, and other stuff they obviously wouldn't need in the Promised Land. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the story because afterward, Father always put a Mac Wiseman record on the old wind-up phonograph snd played "Mary of the Wild Moor." Father said the will was a real-life version of Mac Wiseman's song. (You can watch the Mac Wiseman video on YouTube.)

 

From The Ballad of Lucy-Mae:

My mother's older brother left the most lasting impression. He always made a show of removing his glass eye in front of the children. But it was his rich baritone voice that we loved as he filled the house with the soft notes of his guitar and crooned "Hard times, Hard times, Come Again No More." (Hear a wonderful version of this old favorite on YouTube.)

 

 

From Wormholes: John Denver released a hit song called "Late Nite Radio": I must have been his inspiration. They often played the tune on XERB-AM, the powerful 250,000-watt border station in Rosarito, Mexico. But that was back in the day when Wolfman Jack was the DJ. I'd given up teleporting myself by then. (John Denver's song is available on YouTube.)

Disappeared: Stories from the Coast of Newfoundland. 2012. Kingston. Michael Grass House

 

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Dancing on Air: A Tale of Vengeance, Mercy, and the End of the Death Penalty in Newfoundland. 2016. St. John's. Boulder Publications. Available from all major book sellers.