Funnily the Evangelina story and it’s presence in American Literature. I remember studying the poem and the work of Hawthorne and Longfellow but not as a commentary on an unknown phase of our history or the deep importance of the work.
Listening to this pulls together my life in Ontario, the Gaspé, and the US into a fuller picture.
Ethnic cleansing was not a new term but it certainly gained far greater significance at a personal level.
One can’t move into Acadian strongholds without becoming somewhat confused by both the stories and the facts you thought you knew.
It’s disconcerting to now recognize how much these events continue to negatively affect our countries today.
The section on collective guilt was strong and really tough to assimilate. This permeates all of our history and wars. When is guilt exonerated? This was also well presented in this book. He asks many of the same questions each of us has asked and yet never found acceptable answers.
How does one say I’m sorry if our life style doesn’t appreciatively change in response?