Poetic Obituaries: "Always he was the poet, the minstrel,

the gym rat and the student spokesman," Mr. [Dick] Hall said [of his son Nathan Hall].

Later in life Nathan's bike was one of his door's to freedom, and along with his guitar were his most treasured possessions.

Speaking of his son's remarkable ability to teach he said: "He often confided in me that he was leading his students along about Canada's hockey culture, or the vast diversity and forbidding climate or his arctic adventures while still a child.

"This was the literary Nathan, the fun-loving, self-depreciating humorist and teacher, so vastly different from the studious and contemplative private Nathan. [. . .]"

from Evening Star: Grieving dad: Son Nathan was my best pal

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