This image encodes all that I hope for in Nova Scotia Faces. There's a mystery, a plausible story, a moment out of the lives of photographer and subject, and some sort of reflection of time and place.

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Is there an answer? Could we learn the truth of Alice G's sad fate? We can guess that the picture was taken somewhere on the Fundy coast, in one of perhaps half a dozen port towns, and it's probably sometime in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Not much to go on.