Under the Electric Sky

Under the Electric Sky
Authors
Walsh, Christopher A.
Publisher
Pottersfield Press
Tags
history , carnivals , biography , maritime provinces , nova scotia , halifax
ISBN
9781897426173
Date
2010-10-06T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.75 MB
Lang
en
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Under the Electric Sky takes readers on a thrilling ride through the strange and fabled history of the Bill Lynch Shows, from its modest beginnings on McNab's Island in Halifax Harbour to the successful, tumultuous years criss-crossing the countryside to its current incarnation struggling along dark Maritime highways today.This is one of the most curious stories of this region's past, one never completely understood and, until now, never told in its entirety. The Bill Lynch Shows would breeze into small Maritime towns after dark, packed with enough electricity and magic to illuminate the imaginations of anyone who stepped foot on the midway for the brief while it played their town. For many, its return after a long winter made summer official. The shows became entrenched in the collective psyche, at once the centre of earthly thrills and some of the greatest acts of charity ever witnessed in the region.