Ron Crocker’s lecture will focus on Ray Guy, the Newfoundland journalist and satirist with whom he worked at the Evening Telegram in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This lecture will survey Guy’s early and formative influences as a writer, his legendary career as columnist at the Evening Telegram, and his famed satirical send-ups of former Premier Joey Smallwood and other political antagonists. Ron will also discuss Guy’s intense connection to Newfoundland and Labrador, which he regards as the writer’s primary motivation and his muse.
“Kicking Against the Pricks – The Words and Wisdom of Newfoundland’s Ray Guy” is also the proposed title for a forthcoming biography of Ray Guy which Ron is currently writing.