—Winter in Tilting: Slide Hauling in a Newfoundland Outport

—Winter in Tilting: Slide Hauling in a Newfoundland Outport

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Self-published by Robert Mellin, 2015. Texts by Robert Mellin, Ted Burke, Dan Greene, Jim Greene, Fergus Burke, Pearce Dwyer, Joe Dwyer Sr., Frank McGrath, Jack Burke, Bernice Morgan. 156 pages, 17.7 × 22.8 cm (7 × 9 inches), perfect-bound softcover, digital. Design by Robert Mellin.

A book about ‘slide hauling’, a type of seasonal winter work using horses, which was common until the late 1980s in Tilting, Fogo Island, Newfoundland. Maintaining the slide paths was a communal activity: oral history describing the slide hauling process, watercolours of memorable places along the paths revealing place, maps and photographs from the author's 1988 trip on the winter slide path with his Newfoundland dog Sophie and with Andrew and Neil McGrath and their horse Brandy extend the metaphor of Newfoundland traditions as slow art.

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