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...four-man plane flying north over the Gulf of St. Lawrence, over icebergs ten stories high, heading from Boston to an Indian settlement 50 miles south of the Labrador border. Two months earlier, the man flying the plane had told me about towns along the north shore of the Gulf, isolated fishing villages unconnected by roads of any sort, abandoned in the wilds of the Canadian sub-Arctic. And he told me about a program that he had started in 1961 through which people spent summers in these towns, teaching vital skills that no one up there knew...
...knew of the great Dr. Grenfell, taking young men out of the crowd, telling them about Labrador, Newfoundland, Greenland; and about the people up there, who had nothing. Then they'd tell their families that they were going north with Dr. Grenfell for four, maybe six months, not to worry about them, not to try to get in touch with them. They'd get on board Grenfell's boat and wouldn't be heard from until they returned one day out of the blue...
...Hampton, or simply hang on by their fingernails in New York City, live in a world of secret thoughts and elaborate private rituals that they cannot share. Brennan has always specialized in the involuntary victims of such isolation-children and animals. She has even written successfully about a large Labrador retriever named Bluebell...
...some years she lived in East Hampton and loved it. She also spent time wandering around New Hampshire with a Labrador (the prototype of Bluebell) and all kinds of cats. "The dog got arthritis and died," she says sadly, "and the cats are all gone...
...ship sailed out of Southampton Harbor. From there, the ship was followed by Royal Air Force jets; as she entered the Strait of Gibraltar she was joined by a British destroyer. The Q.E.'s crew was augmented for the occasion by at least 50 security men and several Labrador retrievers whose mission was to sniff out any explosives that might be hidden within the ship. With three tons of matzoth in the pantry to be served during the eight-day Passover, one joke circulating on board was that, if necessary, the passengers could always float to safety...