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He has done it again! Brent Connelly has put his two fingers to the keyboard to produce his fourth book to share more tales of some of the amazing folks he has known working as a forester in his beloved
Algonquin Park and living in various Ottawa Valley communities. You'll meet Bruce Armitage, a master fiddler; B.R. Campbell, an ace pilot; and Jean Cochran, a remarkable farm lady and the best hired man her father-in-law ever had.
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The plates are, scraped and the smokes are lit, so it's time to pull up a chair in the old bunkhouse and swap some tales.
This time, in addition to his beloved Algonquin Park, the popular author of Holy Old Whistlin'-Yarns about Algonquin Park Loggers takes us north to Algoma and east to the Laurentians, not to mention "inbacka" a few other places in between. Familiar characters, such as Jack McRae and Johnny Shaw, pop in for a word or two, while...
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Tall trees and tall tales — that's life in the bush. And, Brent Connelly wouldn't have it any other way.
A forester for nearly forty years, Brent was never happier than when in the company of loggers and truck drivers, timber cruisers and cookies — especially when the "office" was his beloved Algonquin Park. And after a long, hard day nurturing and harvesting the forest, what better way to spend the evening than back at the bunkhouse with a mug...
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