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Allister MacLeod
1990
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From the beginning, our stories were told. We are Story Keepers. In the words of novelist, Alistair Mac Leod, himself a native of Cape Breton, and from his book, NO GREAT MISCHIEF, he writes, "Sometimes those gathered would merely watch the fire and its shadows, but at other times it seemed to move them to tell stories of real or imagined happenings from the near or distant past".