| _BIOG |
Both Itcheh and Masha were secularist and socialist Jews and their social circle in Winnipeg and at the nearby
summer vacation spots included local and visiting Yiddish intellectuals and other avowedly anti-bourgeois
women and men. A portrait of I. L. Peretz in the dining room of the Dworkin home kept a watchful eye on the
comings and goings. The colorful characters of Miriam Dworkin Waddington’s youth populate the stories in
Summer at Lonely Beach, as well as some of her other writings. Her early years were also marked by excursions
into the Manitoba countryside and beyond. Her parents sent her to a socialist camp in nearby Gimli and her
father loved to travel. The whole family at one point took a motoring holiday to Vancouver, British Columbia,
camping along the way. The cityscape of Winnipeg and the landscapes of Canada reappear in Waddington’s
poetry, usually with great vividness and affection. [1] |
