The Day of Varick Frissell

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Varick Frissel was a young American who came to St. Anthony, NL, to work with Dr. Wilfred Grenfell and the International Grenfell Association in the 1920s.Varick Frissel was a young American who came to St. Anthony, NL, to work with Dr.Wilfred Grenfell and the International Grenfell Association in the 1920s, and then went on to make films of Newfoundland and Labrador. In March of 1931, Frissel and his camera crew were aboard the
SS Viking when she left St.John’s enroute to the seal hunt to finish shooting the film White Thunder for Paramount Pictures. This book is the untold story of Varick Frissel and the explosion that blew the Viking apart.