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Ode to Lost Fishermen
On a cold, windswept beach in Meteghan, Nova Scotia, members of La Baie en Joie dance troupe practice a drama about a fisherman lost at sea and his grieving widow. One dancer said she found it easy to summon the required emotions, because both her parents fish. “It’s a way of life,” she said. “You do it even though you know you’ll probably be hurt. People have to go out. Fishing is what our town is based on.” In two other towns I happened on funerals of men lost at sea.
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