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Jed Perl on Reading Nick Lyons’s Fire in the Straw March 12, 2021 A few months ago my friend Nick Lyons, long admired for books about his passion for fishing, published a beautiful memoir, Fire in the Straw. Reading the book has underscored, in a personal way, the gap between life and literature that so many of us take for granted. I’m familiar with quite a few of the stories in Fire in the Straw—subtitled Notes on Inventing a Life—from the conversations that Nick and I have had over the years. But as I’m turning the pages of the book everything feels new. That’s where the dif...

Article content When Jennifer Lyons was a child, diaries from her family’s past set her course for the future. Lyons grew up on a sixth-generation family farm north of Goderich. The family had landed there in the 1850s, and Lyons said old family diaries and other relics from the property’s past sparked her interest. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Glanmore's new curator plans more outreach Back to video “That’s really where I fell in love with this idea of the past, and how we can stand on a spot in the present and not have any idea what...

Former governor Rick Snyder charged over role in Flint, Michigan water poisoning Almost seven years after the crime began, Michigan’s Flint Water Prosecution Team announced indictments Thursday of nine state officials for their roles in the poisoning of the city’s population and then covering up the dangerous condition of the water. Flint has become known around the world for the odious crime carried out against the population in which its most basic necessity—clean water—was replaced with water laced with lead, sickening residents and resulting in numerous deaths. Most significant in...

Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has been criminally charged with willful neglect in connection with the Flint water crisis, report says gpanetta@businessinsider.com (Grace Panetta) © Rebecca Cook/Reuters The top of a water tower is seen at the Flint Water Plant in Flint, Michigan January 13, 2016, where residents coping with the city's crisis over lead-contaminated drinking water. Rebecca Cook/Reuters Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has been criminally charged with willful neglect of duty in connection with the Flint water crisis, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.�...

Covid: Hospitals in Wales' hardest-hit area pause some urgent surgery Published image captionSome 13 ambulances queued outside the Royal Glamorgan Hospital hospital's A&E department on Saturday Hospitals in the area with Wales and England's worst Covid death rates are only coping by postponing urgent surgery such as cancer operations. Cwm Taf Morgannwg had already suspended some non-emergency services but the boss of the health board said they have now paused some urgent procedures. "It's tough times," said Cwm Taf's medical director Nick Lyons. Health Minister Vaughan Gething said he "would ...