Acknowledgements

 

Thanks as always to Rosemary and Dave Neads, my forever wilderness neighbours. It is a change to write about a place that is less remote than theirs!

Thanks also to John Macdonald who provided background information about the Dester family, and Sage Birchwater who suggested other contacts. The late Mildred Baines generously shared documents pertaining to Ginty, and some letters that Ginty had written to Mildred’s family.

This book would not have been half so interesting without the wonderful reminiscences of Libbie Abbott, Joe Cortese, Elaine Dester, Karen Dester, Jeanie Fell, Jim Fell, Sandi Giovanelli, Ken Jansen, Deborah Kannegeiser, Joanne Kirby, Leslie Lamb, Louise Moxon, Lloyd Norton, Rhonda Nygaard, Jan Petrie, Lynne Rettburg and Hattie Thompson.

And last but not least, thanks to Alan and Elizabeth Bell for the use of their come-along—again.