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Guest Speaker -Marianne Goodfellow

“Horses, Howitzers, and Hymns”

Upon his arrival in France in February of 1917, twenty-one-year-old Lieut. Warren Skey purchased a small Au Jour le Jour to record his day-to-day experiences as a gunner, who packed ammunition, loaded on horses, to the guns at the front. He was serving with the 48th Howitzer Battery of the 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery during World War One. Almost a hundred years later author Marianne Goodfellow would discover her great-uncle Warren’s wartime diary forgotten among some family memorabilia—and so she set out to read it.

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Marianne Goodfellow has a background in research in the Humanities, in library reference and archives, and manuscripts, and has previously published articles on the Latin poet Vergil. She taught for a long time in the Greek and Roman Studies Department at Carleton University and is an honorary adjunct professor there. Marianne’s discovery of her great-uncle’s diary took her along an unexpected and very personal path that eventually resulted in Horses, Howitzers, and Hymns. She and her husband divide their time between Ottawa, Ontario and South Esk, New Brunswick, and visit their children and grandchildren in Toronto.