Hayward and Raymond Blake’s book invites readers into the life of Minnie Beatrice Blake, who lived on Newfoundland’s rugged and isolated South Coast. Exploring the fragile line between private lives and public histories and set against the back drop of an unforgiving landscape where the sea could sustain or destroy in an instant, Minnie’s story is one of trauma and tragedy but also of resilience and hope. Her life, though“ordinary,” illuminates the extraordinary strength of women whose contributions rarely appear in official accounts of the past.

Friday, June 5, 2 pm