HeyJaredLeo Cappel, Artist, Writer, Musician, Holocaust Survivor
Serialized writings by the late Leo Cappel, including his autobiography. Leo wrote novels, plays, and also non-fiction works. All are out of print.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Oct 2, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 11, 2026
Latest issues
South Brighton (opens the original)
Read excerpt
By then we had moved to a pleasant little house in South Brighton. The house belonged to friends of us who had to go and live in Benmore for a few years, and we could live there for a very low rental. Lower even if I would paint the house, so I picked a nice green colour, hired some trestles and scaffolding and set to work. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LIVd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.
Moa Hunter Quarry (opens the original)
Read excerpt
ROCK POOL One of the portable displays for country schools which I made at the Canterbury Museum. The background of the display was cast in epoxy resin from a latex mould. To make the mould I had to be ready at a Banks Peninsula rock pool as the tide was dropping, because the whole mould had to be finished and fully set before the tide came in again. The most difficult part was making casts of sea anemones. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s
What did you think of New Zealand, Grandpa? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
'What did you think of New Zealand, Grandpa, did you like it here straight away?' 'We sure did, Gemma. Of course we made most of the mistakes other immigrants had made before us. Instead of food we had brought a stack of clean plates to a 'Ladies, a plate please' party of the tramping club and we had invited people we met somewhere to come and see us, using the wrong kind of phrase, so they never turned up. Thanks for reading Leo Cappel, Artist, Writer, Musician, Holocaust Survivor! Subscribe
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.
See coverage about Leo Cappel, Artist, Writer, Musician, Holocaust Survivor