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The Lighthouse Kids, celebrates a unique life, growing up - and Comox artist Ruth Dickson’s 90th birthday.
The setting for the story is Pine Island, at the entrance to Queen Charlotte Strait. Dickson’s parents were the lighthouse keepers there between 1945 and 1952. Her sister and a brother worked as assistants.
Although the story is imaginary, many of the incidents were actual happenings in Dickson’s own family.
“I wrote this story because I know something about living on a lighthouse, and I would like my great grandchildren to be aware of the type of life some of their ancestors lived,” she explained.
Her great grandparents, grandparents, and parents were all light keepers in Scotland. She was born in Glasgow, the eldest of four children.
“As a lighthouse keeper’s daughter, my heritage was wind, waves, cliffs, seabirds and solitude,” she remarked.
Dickson is a respected artist whose work has been displayed in many Island art galleries. She has taught watercolours, oils, drawing and silkscreen and is a member of the Comox Brushworks group, who display their artwork regularly at the Filberg Lodge and the Pearl Ellis Gallery. Many of Ruth’s poems and short stories have appeared in British Columbian anthologies.
This is her first published work of book-length fiction. It is illustrated with Ruth’s drawings and paintings of Pine Island.
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For more information about buying a copy, please contact Angela Burns, GSG Ltd, at 890-2081, or email gsgcanadashaw.ca.
The setting for the story is Pine Island, at the entrance to Queen Charlotte Strait. Dickson’s parents were the lighthouse keepers there between 1945 and 1952. Her sister and a brother worked as assistants.
Although the story is imaginary, many of the incidents were actual happenings in Dickson’s own family.
“I wrote this story because I know something about living on a lighthouse, and I would like my great grandchildren to be aware of the type of life some of their ancestors lived,” she explained.
Her great grandparents, grandparents, and parents were all light keepers in Scotland. She was born in Glasgow, the eldest of four children.
“As a lighthouse keeper’s daughter, my heritage was wind, waves, cliffs, seabirds and solitude,” she remarked.
Dickson is a respected artist whose work has been displayed in many Island art galleries. She has taught watercolours, oils, drawing and silkscreen and is a member of the Comox Brushworks group, who display their artwork regularly at the Filberg Lodge and the Pearl Ellis Gallery. Many of Ruth’s poems and short stories have appeared in British Columbian anthologies.
This is her first published work of book-length fiction. It is illustrated with Ruth’s drawings and paintings of Pine Island.
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For more information about buying a copy, please contact Angela Burns, GSG Ltd, at 890-2081, or email gsgcanadashaw.ca.