Joanne Bell’s novel, Juggling Fire, is inspired by her daughter, Mary Fraughton. One night Fraughton asked her to come outside on the road and watch her juggling lit torches. Stars shone through the blurred flames. Bell was struck by the image “of a girl in bare feet, on a gravel bar, juggling fire with the …
Young Adult (YA) readers love adventure, and a look at work by Northern authors Joanne Bell, Keith Halliday and Anita Daher shows why. YA stories can teach life skills and bush skills, as Dawson writer Joanne Bell demonstrates. Her first book, Breaking Trail (Groundwood Press), is the story of a young girl mushing her own …
The Yukon’s beauty stuns. And yet even in this context the Tombstone Territorial Park stands out. It’s a kind of iconic distillation of the Yukon’s beauty. This summer, you’ll be able to see that landscape through the eyes of 10 artists, through the Art Magic in Tombstone program coordinated by Friends of Dempster Country and …
