One flag you won’t find at my favourite Halifax flag store is the Confederate flag.
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Arts & Culture
Halifax Flag Store Does Not Sell Confederate Flag
Aug 25, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Maritime Recipe: Guinness & Oyster Soup
Aug 18, 2017 | Arts & Culture
The Macdonald Notebook received permission from Fitzhenry.ca, publisher of How To Make Love To A Lobster to re-publish select shellfish recipes from its seafood cookbook.
This recipe on oysters is from Chef Chris McNulty.
Guinness and Oyster Soup
Shag Harbour To Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of UFO Crash
Aug 18, 2017 | Arts & Culture
As Shag Harbour prepares to host a UFO symposium and a celebration of a 50-year-old UFO mystery, at the end of September, a university student is writing his thesis on the strange and bizarre and even out of this world incident from October 4, 1967.
Love Shellfish? You’ll Love This Charming Cookbook
Aug 18, 2017 | Arts & Culture
A ‘must read’ among lovers of shellfish is the quaint cookbook, How To Make Love To A Lobster, first printed in 1988.
Cottage Life: How Cindy Day Can Forecast A Grand Beach Day
Aug 18, 2017 | Arts & Culture
A neat way to forecast a grand and glorious day at the beach is to survey the morning lawn – when it is covered with dew.
Brigadier-General Rescued Parrsboro’s Ottawa House
Aug 18, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Brig-Gen Colin Curleigh (Ret’d), who died last week at age 81, led an active retirement life after settling in Parrsboro’s Green Hill, and was largely responsible for rescuing the summer cottage known as Ottawa House, once occupied by Sir Charles Tupper.
Chester Chatter: A Modern Day Fish and Chip War
Aug 11, 2017 | Arts & Culture
There’s a small fish and chip war in seaside Chester, although one of the proprietors told me to behave myself when I set about writing about this war.
Cottage Life: When The Next Generation Takes Over
Aug 11, 2017 | Arts & Culture
As summer wanes, a key discussion around the cottage is the transfer of the favourite property oasis to the next generation.
Sailing Excursion From Halifax To Bras d’Or Lake
Aug 4, 2017 | Arts & Culture
For some sailors, turning left at the mouth of Halifax Harbour just doesn’t seem natural. The pull of heading in the opposite direction is strong, with plenty of gunkholes to anchor en route to Mahone Bay.
Halifax Jews Celebrate Gay Pride
Aug 4, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Last year’s Gay Pride annual general meeting debacle was at the centre of speeches at the first ever Pride Shabbat dinner hosted last weekend by the Atlantic Jewish Council. Some still had wounds they were dealing with, but leaders on both sides are trying to make sure everyone feels included in Pride in the future.
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