Songs of
Kenneth Leslie

List
Halifax Citadel
Prospect Road
Glooscap's Eye
Go, Lank Rover
John Angus
California
Cape Breton Lullaby

Kenneth Leslie is the son of Western Society , the father of Gloria Wenk and Grandfather of Brigid Wendover, my wife and mother of my two daughters, Heidrun Tara Arthursdottir and Dagbjort Dipa Arthursdottir. This statement may raise a few questions which I will not try to answer here. 
I met him, 1975, once in a Halifax hospital. He was paralyzed and unable to walk or speak. Not the man that one thinks of. There I met Nora, his wonderful wife, by his side. 

I have taken the time to scan a number of poems from a poem book he published in 1972, called O’Malley to the Reds & other Poems. 
I have also scanned some sheet music which includes Cape Breton Lullaby. 

Arthur Wendover 
 
 

 
ARNOLD SCHOOL TO HARVARD 
 

KENNETH LESLIE attended a one-room private school in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, known as the Arnold School located near the famous Victoria Park with its magnificent statue of Robert Burns. He played Rugby and Cricket. He studied Latin at an early age. 

The school was conducted by "Duck" Wad-dell, the Haligonian version of the Irish hedge-schoolmaster, a never-to-be-forgotten experience. He graduated from Dalhousie University, then studied a year at Colgate Theological Seminary where he helped form the Socialist Club. 
 
 
 

Then he continued studies at Nebraska University (MA) and Harvard where he passed exams for Ph.D. but failed the lingual test. 
 

KENNETH LESLIE 
1074 WELLINGTON STREET HALIFAX, 
NOVA SCOTIA CANADA 
1972