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White squalls are the culprits of many sea stories and have been blamed for a few tragedies. A white squall was the reported cause of the loss of the schooner Paul Pry off Cape Schanck, Australia, on September 3, 1841. [2] In May 1986, the Pride of Baltimore, a modern 137-foot (42 m) schooner, was reportedly
From Fresh Water is a 1984 posthumous album by Stan Rogers.It was one of a series of concept albums Rogers intended to do about the regions of Canada. From Fresh Water is about the Great Lakes area of Canada, while Fogarty's Cove was an album about the Maritimes, and Northwest Passage was about the western provinces and the North.
Stanley Allison Rogers (November 29, 1949 – June 2, 1983) [1] was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter who sang traditional-sounding songs frequently inspired by Canadian history and the working people's daily lives, especially from the fishing villages of the Maritime provinces and, later, the farms of the Canadian prairies and Great Lakes. [2]
The 1996 film White Squall, starring Jeff Bridges and directed by Ridley Scott, presents a fictionalized version of the ship's loss. After the loss of the Albatross, Sheldon worked for the Peace Corps and briefly started another sailing school. He never remarried and died on October 5, 2002, of pancreatic cancer, in Stamford, Connecticut. He ...
Between the Breaks ... Live! is a 1979 folk music album by Stan Rogers. [1] It was recorded at The Groaning Board in Toronto, Ontario. [2] The album was included in a series of reissued versions of Stan Rogers albums on Borealis Records. The Borealis releases were given completely new cover artwork.
Lines and phrases from singer-songwriter Stan Rogers are worked into the text, e.g. "You never had to tell him twice or find him work to do" from White Squall. "The Change" is similar to the phenomenon described in Steve Boyett's 1983 novel: Ariel: A Book of the Change, and the subtitle "A Book of the Change" is identical to Ariel's subtitle.
A snow squall is a brief period of intense snowfall and wind that leads to whiteout conditions which could trigger dangerous traffic accidents. Snow squalls are most common in the northern United ...
"Northwest Passage" is one of the best-known songs by Canadian musician Stan Rogers.The original recording from the 1981 album of the same name is an a cappella song, featuring Rogers alone singing the verses, with Garnet Rogers, David Alan Eadie and Chris Crilly harmonizing with him in the chorus.