Maria Meindl: The Significance of Remembrance

Fanshawe College's Letters and Arts Society presents
Maria Meindl: The Significance of Remembrance
Outside the Box: the Life and Legacy of Mona Gould
Thursday, November 24, 2011

Meindl's essays, poetry, and fiction have appeared in journals including The Literary Review of Canada and Queen Street Quarterly. She has made two series for CBC Radio's Ideas: Parent Care, about siblings caring for their elderly parents, and Remembering Polio, about the polio epidemics of the 1950s. Her latest book Outside the Box is a tribute to her grandmother who was a local reporter for the London Advertiser and St. Thomas Journal. Gould was also a broadcaster for CKEY in Toronto. Mona Gould broke new ground as a working woman in a man's world; she wrote a poem a day until her death at 91; and sadly, died in poverty. Meindl's interests include health care, aging, and women in the arts in Canada. This talk will explore the life and legacy of a local London broadcaster and writer, whose career spanned eight decades of the 20th Century.

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Education

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• poetry
• storytelling
• journalism
• broadcaster
• CKEY
• This Was My Brother