An advertisement reading: Jon Tattrie in conversation on TO LEAVE A WARRIOR BEHIND with the cover of the book, the logos for Bookmark bookstore and McClelland & Stewart publishers, and Sunday, February 22nd, 2-4 pm AST, O'Regan Hall at the Halifax Central Library.
Journalist and author Jon Tattrie behind a podium raising his hand and smiling. Behind him, a photograph of flowers on a table in front of Eddie Carvery's Africville protest site. Carvery died of cancer last week after more than 50 years protesting of the bulldozing of the Black community by (the white city government of) Halifax in the 1960s. More context is here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/eddie-carvery-africville-activist-dies-9.7091578 and in Tattrie's book about Carvery, The Hermit of Africville.
Really enjoyed this reading and presentation yesterday by Jon Tattrie on Charles R. Saunders and Africville, with something of a memorial to Eddie Carvery as well, and talking about how his biography of Saunders came to be written. #sffh #BookSky #CharlesRSaunders