WORD ON THE HILLS, wordonthehills.com

This programme was broadcast on August 3rd. Thomas Harrison is a teacher, lawyer and artist who lives on his family horse farm in rural Prince Edward County. He has taught in a wide range of settings, teaching literacy in Kingston Penitentiary, with Young Offenders in detention, in high schools and in higher education at Queen’s University Law School. He spent most of his legal career as Crown Counsel, doing policy work with the provincial Attorney General. He earned his Ph.D. in law in 2016. He has written and published journalistic and scholarly works but Searching for Richard Nixon: Finding Refuge and Making a Home in Prince Edward County is his first book-length work of creative nonfiction. Thomas is also an emerging artist who paints and acts. He will be reprising his role as Herr Schultz in the Shatterbox Theatre’s production of Cabaret this Fall at the Cape in Picton.