image courtesy of Swannanoa Valley Museum
To snowy Ontario, Canada for our 2026 Christmas Special! Living out the dream of countless exhausted women, Laura Lee Davidson retreated to an island in the middle of a lake, and lived there alone through a long Canadian winter. But she wasn’t really alone. Wild creatures became her friends, and she was constantly the recipient of neighborly kindness from folks on the mainland. Laura Lee’s 1922 book about her winter on the island is now considered a classic of Canadian literature, and a vivid portrait of time gone by.
Katie reads some of her favorite excerpts from the book, and we all tag along with Laura Lee Davidson, retreating into a remote winter solitude, and marveling at the wonders of nature.
Find Laura Lee Davidson’s A Winter of Content HERE, or read a digital copy HERE.
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Music featured in this episode includes:
Deck the Halls, Air Prelude, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, and Angels We Have Heard on High by Kevin MacLeod; The First Noel by Quincas Moreira; I Saw Three Ships by Audionautix; The Friendly Beasts by Marc Nelson; Unrequited by Asher Fulero; In the Bleak Midwinter by The Whalens; Growing Up by Nate Blaze; Auld Lang Syne by DJ Williams; The Anunnaki Return by Jesse Gallagher; When We Found the Horizon by Late Night Feeler. With additional sounds from freesound.org including “St Marys River Dawn Chorus” and “Midnight Nature On The St. Marys River” by Ambient-X; and “Canadian loons” by Chance Media.
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