Little, Linda

Linda Little’s life has been unlike Jackson Bigney’s in nearly every way. She grew up on a small farm in Hawkesbury, Ontario, and studied at Queen’s University in Kingston and at Memorial University in St. John’s. After a few months in English Harbour, on Trinity Bay, she moved to a small farm near River John, Nova Scotia. Like Jackson, she found she had little taste for farm chores; she quit raising cows and now keeps only pigs, chickens, and turkeys during the summer. Like Jackson, she, too, is a terrible fiddle player — so terrible that she has been known to use her rend...