This afternoon we were making a quick stop at Local Source before getting our flu shots (if enough of us get a shot there will be plenty of herd immunity to save the OTHERS). Anyway, the new Cyclesmith and Nurtured were looking so shiny and lovely I had to  carefully cross the street and take a picture. I know in terms… Read More

Genealogy The NSDCC Christmas Market is this weekend and I noticed it will be the 39th edition (for event times and a preview see blog mates The Local Traveler). I attended the first market and this got me trying to recall the genealogy of the big three markets. The first Christmas craft market happened in 1971 or… Read More

I noticed that Garrett's By the Bridge in New Glasgow was recently demolished. In their later days (the last 40 years) I think of them as an antique store but I believe they may have sold sporting goods and musical instruments. Ask someone from New Glasgow. The special reason that we should all take note… Read More

My last post referenced the move to daylight Sawmill River in Dartmouth. For some years it has been concealed in a giant culvert. There are lots of interesting arguments  for daylighting and for those I direct you to Sam Austin's article in Spacing Atlantic.  Another candidate for daylighting  in Halifax is Freshwater Brook that started at North… Read More

Have you been noticing the talk about daylighting Sawmill River in Dartmouth? To get up to speed read Sam Austin's post on Spacing Atlantic. (Hat tip to Halifax Examiner for the link). Sawmill River was the out flow of the chain of lakes that were the first section of the Shubenacadie  Canal.  It was a power source… Read More

Recently I've blogged about images of women and men on buildings and in our streets.  What I haven't quite come out and said before is: the images of women are more varied and interesting. A reason for the men's poor showing is that those lazy guys are using surrogates: lions! What's more manly and noble and comforting than a… Read More

Recently I posted a blog about working women around Halifax. The women were statues and bas-reliefs doing things like pouring water or supporting a cornice. A couple of panels from Queen Elizabeth High School were of particular interest because they portrayed young women in stereotypical occupations (spinning and drama). For this post my first thought was to… Read More

Will we see you in Wolfville for Devour? I hope so. Devour is the Food Film Festival held November 12-16, 2014. It is a big deal, and worth making the effort to sample a little or a lot. So go off to their site and start exploring. If you are still here let me tell… Read More

When you start noticing, there are quite a few images of women in our parks and on our buildings. Many of them are working women, pouring water, holding up buildings or picking apples. I'm really not qualified to unpack all the messages in these representations but I'm confident they tell us something about the times in… Read More

Hungry Bowls, an event staged by students in the Ceramics program at NSCAD, is coming up on Thursday, November 6.   The simple concept is you choose a handmade bowl that catches your fancy from a big table of bowls. Then you choose a soup provided by a  number of fine Halifax restaurants. And when you are… Read More