The Old Log School. Rev. ed.

Dennis Blake is a high-school history teacher with the Halton Board of
Education.

In this splendidly representative example of amateur historical writings
in the pre-wars years, Gavin Hamilton Green recounts his years as a
youth living in Colborne Township, Huron County. Green, whose long life
spanned the century between 1881 and 1981, re-creates in awkward and
endearing anecdote a period of early Canadian life rich in social and
cultural detail. The halting first-person prose seduces the reader into
envisioning a time now long lost to personal recollection.

The result of a project spearheaded by the Huron County Historical
Society, The Old Log School is a revised and expanded edition of the
1939 publication. Green’s work is lovingly reprinted here with a
contextual biographical profile, site reference, and glossary.

These episodic snapshots, ranging from a child’s life at school in
the 1870s through to a reflective middle age in Depression-era Canada,
should be savored on quiet nights spent in an old, comfortable chair.