A short story full of compassion and heart about a young M�tis farmworker joining a Ukrainian boy’s family.
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When Gordon Gordey was eight-years-old, his carefree farm boy childhood was about to be snatched away. His dad badly injured his back in a haying incident. Gordon fears the family’s seasonal help, Henry, will leave the farm to hitchhike out for new work.

Henry does leave but it is to search for the “Old Man”.

What follows is a touching story of a young M�tis man, a Cree Indian healer, the power of the sweat lodge, and a heartfelt coming together to rebound from life’s setbacks. This story is inspired by a true event and re-inspired in this work of fiction.

Young readers and those who enjoy connecting with this 1950s era of resilient rural life will be swept up by the compassion of this short story’s endearing characters.
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Розповідь, на яку надихнула реальна подія

Метис приєднується до родини українського хлопчика для праці на фермерському господарстві.
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Гордону Гордею було вісім років, коли його безтурботне дитинство на фермерському господарстві мало ось-ось обірватись. Під час заготівлі сіна його батько тяжко пошкодив спину. Гордон переживає, що Генрі, якого прийняли на сезонну підмогу по господарству, покине ферму в пошуках іншої роботи.

Генрі й справді покидає господарство, але тільки для того, щоб відшукати �Старого�. Далі слідує зворушлива розповідь про молодого метиса, індіанського цілителя, цілющі властивості хатипарильні й зближення сердець, щоб вистояти життєві незгоди. Натхненна реальними подіями, ця розповідь знову оживає як художній витвір.

Юні читачі й ті, хто бажають заглибитись в життєлюбність сільського життя минулих 50-их, змушені будуть співпереживати разом із захоплюючими персонажами цього оповідання.

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Gordon Gordey is an internationally recognized professional arts stage director, producer, folk dance researcher, and librettist/writer. In 2023 he translated and published Pylyp Yasnowskii, Internee No. 1198, a diary of Yasnowskii's internment at Kapuskasing Camp being unjustly branded as an "Enemy Alien" in Canada's WWI Internment Operations. "Gordon Gordey, Director and Dancemaker: Creating Original Ukrainian Dance in Canada-An Autobiographical Reflection of a 40-Year Creative Journey with The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada" was published in Collected Papers on Ukrainian Life in Western Canada. (Ostroh Academy Press). Gordey produced the first English translation of The People's Malakhii, a play by Ukraine's first modern dramatist, Mykola Kulish, who was exiled and perished as a victim of Stalin's purges. Gordey taught acting, directing, and contemporary drama at Dalhousie and MacEwan universities for 40 years. He is recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in the development of theater in Alberta in Theatre 100: Celebrating 100 Theatre Practitioners over 100 Years.

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