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Founded in 1972, Cape Breton's Magazine is "devoted to the history, natural history, and future of Cape Breton Island". Its founder, publisher, and editor, Ronald Caplan, moved to Wreck Cove, Cape Breton from the United States in 1971. Inspired by Eliot Wigginston's Foxfire books in which American school children collected stories from older people, Caplan began to record stories told to him by Cape Bretoners and published them largely unedited and uncensored. The magazine soon became an ongoing publishing project, based primarily on oral history compiled from taped interviews. Since the magazine's founding there have been, in addition to the regular issues, five books of compilations, two full-length plays, and five short radio plays based on the interviews. It has been used widely in classrooms, and has been the impetus for several other Canadian regional magazines and popular books. Over the years, the magazine has received numerous awards for its contribution to the cultural and heritage education and oral history of Cape Breton.