Marnie Hare Bickle worked most of her career in music academia for the Music Library, Faculty of Music, Western University; Ontario Regional Director, Canadian Music Centre; and Concert Manager, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. She combined her pursuit of music and writing in essays and articles to promote and showcase classical musicians. In 2004, she and her husband moved to a family home just north of Port Hope in the hamlet of Canton. There she discovered long forgotten letters, manuscripts and other writings by her husband’s relative, John Thomas David Ford. His stories of growing up in the East Arctic (1910 – 1930), written down before he left the Arctic to enlist for WWII, were researched, reworked and edited by Marnie into Native Born Son: The Journals of J. David Ford published by Blue Denim Press, 2018. Now she has released a second book, On Display which tells the story of the first exhibit of Innuit art in southern Canada and David Ford’s role, acting as translator and guide for its artists.