Marjorie Simmins

Jun 10, 2024 | atlanticbooks.ca | Lisa Doucet |Karl Wells |Carole Glasser Langille |Marjorie Simmins

From Atlantic Books Today 99, spring 2024Vernon Oickle is one of those writers who have a nose for bestselling books.

Jun 13, 2023 | saltscapes.com | Marjorie Simmins

Family recipes are heart of Fleur de Lis It’s always a good plan to be hungry when you cross the Canso Causeway that separates the mainland of Nova Scotia from Cape Breton Island.

Apr 9, 2023 | saltscapes.com | Marjorie Simmins

An interview with Séan McCann & Andrea Aragon It is a date that Andrea Aragon, wife of Séan McCann, the co-founder of Great Big Sea and now a solo musician, will never forget—November 9, 2011, when she delivered an ultimatum to her husband: stop drinking now, or lose your family. McCann had been spiralling downwards for years; would he choose the bottle or his family? Aragon wasn’t sure. Nor did she know how they could re-build their marriage after so many hits to its foundation.