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Modern Love: Kept Together by the Bars Between Us

WHEN we met, he had already served 7 years of a 13-years-to-life sentence for murder. He was once a drug dealer and had shot and killed another dealer on a miserable spring morning in a little northern Ontario town. I was working as a newspaper ...

From AMY FRIEDMAN, The New York Times,  13 Feb 2009

Tell Me a Story: Rabbit and Moon Man, an Algonquin legend

Thursday, November 27, 2008 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE It was a cold autumn, nearing winter, and the snow had already covered the earth when Rabbit set out to hunt. Rabbit was a fine hunter. He lived with his grandmother, and he loved ...

From AMY FRIEDMAN, Canton Repository,  27 Nov 2008

Tell Me a Story: The Heroic Honeybird, a tale from southern Africa

Thursday, November 13, 2008 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE Once upon a time two brothers, Thulani and Tithembile, walked together into the bush. The boys were from a small village. Their plan was to hunt for as long as it took to fill ...

From AMY FRIEDMAN, Canton Repository,  13 Nov 2008

Tell Me a Story: The Lady and the Unjust Judge: A Turkish folk tale

Thursday, November 6, 2008 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE Long ago, in Stamboul, there lived a wealthy pasha who loved and admired his wife. He told everyone that she was the most compassionate woman in the world. This was true. The lady ...

From AMY FRIEDMAN, Canton Repository,  6 Nov 2008

Tell Me a Story: The Ghosts of High River Bridge

Thursday, October 30, 2008 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE Once upon a time, there was a boy named Jack who loved best of all listening to tales people told. He lived in a village near High River Bridge. One autumn day, very near Halloween, ...

From AMY FRIEDMAN, Canton Repository,  30 Oct 2008

Tell Me a Story: Girl at the Edge of the World, a Yurok Indian legend

Thursday, October 9, 2008 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE Umai, a restless and dreamy young woman, lived with her people, the Woge, on the far edge of their world, a flat plate that floated upon the Ocean Within the World. The Woge were ...

From AMY FRIEDMAN, Canton Repository,  9 Oct 2008

Tell Me a Story: Bellerophon and Pegasus, a Greek legend

Thursday, September 25, 2008 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE Long ago, in the city state of Corinth, there lived a young man named Bellerophon, son of King Glaucus, though some say Bellerophon's true father was the god of the sea, Poseidon. ...

From AMY FRIEDMAN, Canton Repository,  25 Sep 2008

Tell Me a Story: The Misunderstood Man, a West African folk tale

Thursday, September 18, 2008 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE Once upon a time in the hills of Ghana, there lived a young man named Kofi. People called Kofi "Know-It-All" because he was forever bragging about how much he knew. No matter ...

From AMY FRIEDMAN, Canton Repository,  18 Sep 2008

Tell Me a Story: 'Angel Dance,' an Indonesian folk tale

Thursday, September 11, 2008 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE Once upon a time there lived a prince named Arif, the only son of the king and queen in the kingdom we call Sulawesi. Arif was a kind young man who loved the many creatures of ...

From AMY FRIEDMAN, Canton Repository,  11 Sep 2008

Tell Me a Story: "The Cattle Herder's Magical Wife," a Venda folk tale from Southern Africa

Thursday, September 4, 2008 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE Once upon a time, near the sacred Lake Fundudzi, there lived a lonely cattle herder. Each night after he had worked all day alone in the bush, the young man returned to his hut. ...

From AMY FRIEDMAN, Canton Repository,  4 Sep 2008

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