By: Doug Dwyer

I was born in Mass USA in 1937. to a Newfoundland couple. My father was in the US army air corp.during the war. My mother passed away in 1947 and dad took us "home". I grew up in Heatherton, Bay St George, and went to school there in the R.C. School.

My first job was as a truck driver for Western Construction Co. at River Brook. Building the Trans Canada Highway. Shortly after that I came to the USA and joined the Air Force from 1955 to 1959.

After leaving the Air Force, I tried Newfoundland again, but there was no work and I returned to the US in 1963. Most of those following years were for trucking company's. I lived and worked in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, California, Missouri and Texas.

In 1973, I went back to the rock and worked as a foreman for the IOCC in Labrador City, until Dec 1978.

Back again to the US (my ex wife couldn't stand the cold). I met my present wife in 1985 in Texas and we took a trip to visit her family in Tennessee. I fell in love with her, her family and the state. We moved here in 1986 and bought this small farm in 1991, when I retired.

We have , on our farm, the only animal shelter in the county, our hobby. and we take in any and everything.

My intrest in writing started about seven years ago when a friend Wes Hall ("the Daily News Express") asked me to do a story on how I got there. I have been running a column in that paper ever sence. I also do columns for the "Southern Humor" and "Sparta Magazine".

Its a hobby and just something I love to do. Mr Hall has been trying to put together a book for me, made up of these columns.

Number of Columns: 34

Title	Date posted	# of Comments	Last Comment on
Easter memories	3/23/2008	1	3/26/2008
Pigs....	2/20/2008	2	6/4/2008
Spring is coming	2/20/2008	1	2/20/2008
my pack rat dog.	12/4/2007	1	2/17/2008
Hero's im my back yard	12/4/2007
Uncle Johns night out	9/16/2007	1	9/16/2007
Big foot ?	9/14/2007	1	9/16/2007
the great rides of youth	9/4/2007	2	9/16/2007
Shark attacks.	8/29/2007	1	8/30/2007
the Deer Hunter	8/24/2007
Memories of times gone by...	3/11/2007	1	8/5/2007
Mothers... God Bless Them	1/1/2007
Mr. Butts dog, "Peek a Boo"	12/1/2006	4	7/21/2009
On Sacred Ground	11/1/2006	1	8/5/2007
Remember When	10/1/2006
Berry pickin' with the bears	9/1/2006
Salmon Fishing... the hard way	8/1/2006
The Story Teller	7/1/2006
Breaking and entering, a capitol crime	6/1/2006
Memories of the days when we were rich	5/1/2006
The Ghost of Frank Harris	4/1/2006	1	2/17/2008
The Scottish Highlanders	3/1/2006
At the end of the valley, they still make their camp	2/1/2006
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream	1/2/2006
It is truly sad what has happened to Newfoundland	12/1/2005
The Christmas Tree	12/1/2005	1	8/5/2007
The Ghost of the Portugal Fisherman	11/1/2005
Cogitations	10/1/2005
Growing up on da Rock	9/1/2005
Island in the Humber River	7/1/2005	1	8/5/2007
The Happy House	6/1/2005	1	2/17/2008
The Ghost by my Fireplace	5/1/2005	1	2/17/2008
Mr Madores Ghost	4/1/2005	1	2/17/2008
Mummers	3/9/2005