New Day (novel) New Day (novel) New Day is a 1949 book by Jamaican author V. S. Reid. It was Reid's first novel. "New Day" deals with the political history of Jamaica as told by a character named Campbell, who is a boy at the time of the Morant Bay Rebellion (in 1865) and an old man during its final chapters. It may have been the first novel to use Jamaican vernacular as its language of narration. Reid employed the Jamaican dialect as a springboard for creating a distinctive literary variant and for achieving a greater depth in the English language. Reid was
Hole in the Day Point. Hole in the Day Hole in the Day (The Younger) 1825-1868, was a prominent chief of the Ojibwe native people of Minnesota. The Ojibwe pronunciation has been written in various spellings such as Bagone-giizhig, Bagwunagijik, Bug-o-nay-ki-shig, Pugonakeshig or Puk-O-Nay-Keshig. Hole-in-the-Day has also been called Hole-in-the-Sky. The name probably refers to a dream in which the guardian spirit was seen through an opening in the sky. Some have speculated that the name refers to an eclipse of the sun, or an opening in an overcast sky through which sunlight is streaming down. In 1847 Hole in the Day (the Younger)