Who Is Stompin’ Tom Connors?
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.16.02 | 7:54 PM ET
When people ask Cleo Paskal who her favorite travel writer is, she answers Stompin’ Tom Connors.
“I know I am supposed to answer with a soliloquy on the comparative merits of Bruce Chatwin and Bill Bryson, perhaps throwing in something about how the
genre has not been the same since Homer. (The Homer, not the yellow fellow ontelevision),” she writes in Canada’s National Post. “But I can’t.”
Just who is Stompin’ Tom, you ask? He’s a songwriter. And a best-selling author, Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement award winner, an Officer of the Order of Canada, an Honourary Goodwill Ambassador for Prince Edward Island, a multiple Juno winner, a recipient of two honourary doctorates (prompting him to name one album Dr.
Stompin’ Tom, Eh?), he had his own TV show and put out dozens of albums.
“If you can name a corner of Canada,” Paskal writes, “chances are Stompin’ Tom has written a song about it.” It’s true. We surfed his Web site and came across dozens of dandies, including a nice little ditty about that most Canadian of pastimes: Ice hockey.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
