The View From Here
South Shore Essays
Published on 30. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
274 pages
978-1-998149-87-2 (ISBN)
Description
For over thirty years, Vernon Oickle penned a weekly column for newspapers serving his home town of Liverpool, Nova Scotia. His essays became anticipated weekly visitors to homes all along the South Shore. He wrote about large issues and small, pet peeves and grand plans, national news and the closing of a cherished store in the community. His column, "The View from Here", was the essence of what people look for in a community paper.
This collection gathers the best of those essays for your reading pleasure, in categories ranging from how to make a community strong to how to survive in a scary pandemic to advice for men on Christmas shopping.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-998149-87-2 (9781998149872)
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Vernon Oickle was born and raised in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, where he continues to reside with his wife, Nancy, and their family. Growing up in a small town in rural Nova Scotia, Vernon always wanted to pursue a career as a newspaper reporter. After completing high school in 1979, he attended Lethbridge Community College. He graduated in 1982 with an honours diploma in Journalism and returned to Liverpool to work at the local newspaper, The Advance. His community newspaper career spanned 33 years.In addition to his long list of newspaper awards and honours, in 2012 Vernon received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, recognizing his contributions to his community, province and country, and in April 2015 he received a Distinguished Alumni Award (Community Leader) from Lethbridge College. He was inducted into the Atlantic Journalism Awards Hall of Fame in the spring of 2020.As a testimony to his outstanding career, in 2014 the South Queens Middle School in Liverpool announced the creation of the Vernon Oickle Writer's Award, to be given annually to a student who excels in the art of writing, either fiction or non-fiction.Seven Crows a Secret Yet To Be Told is Vernon's 34th published book.