No Shelter from the Storm by Sean Howard, Cape Breton Spectator, August 5,2020

The New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ recently reported how, in the depths of the Big Apple’s COVID-19 lockdown, musician David Mansfield discovered a rusted hatch in his overgrown backyard. Prizing it open, he descended a ladder to a nuclear fall-out shelter, a claustrophobic capsule – or “David Bowie tin can” – assembled as “a patriotic act, so that we Americans could survive a war with the Russians.”

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