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Art Installation: Day and Henri Beaudout

art installation: There, they were feted and photographed, but here in Nova Scotia, little attention was paid, according to The Chronicle Herald. Now, Sean Day, a Nova Scotian urban planner, hopes to bring the captain of the four-man crew back to Halifax to mark the anniversary of the brave voyage with a ceremony beside the water, likely in October, and later, he hopes, an art installation. After a perilous 88-day journey during which they encountered sharks, storms and near-starvation, the men landed in England. Day said it would be fitting to take Henri Beaudout, now 89 and the sole surviving member of the crew, on a boat ride of the harbour so he could feel the swell of the Atlantic under him. Speaking by phone Friday with his close friend Louis Hardy acting as translator, Beaudout tells how, as a 16-year-old during the war in Europe, he ran messages for the French Resistance, until his contact, a postal clerk, was arrested. In 1952 Beaudout was a French immigrant to Canada, struggling with what modern scientists call post-traumatic stress disorder. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.