At the Maritime rural cottages, like mine in Jimtown Beach, one gets to delight in the life of the tiny but super amazing hummingbird.
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Arts & Culture
Cottage Life: The Joys Of Feeding The Amazing Hummingbirds
Aug 25, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Chester Chatter: Leading Undertaker Sees Third Generation Take In Race Week
Aug 25, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Donald Walker last week sailed his sloop Dark Water, a classic C&C 33 built in Oakville, Ont., in North America’s largest keel boat race in Chester.
Brig-General Saved Parrsboro House – Part II
Aug 25, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Following last weekend’s The Macdonald Notebook on how retired Brig-Gen. Colin Curleigh rescued a 21-room cottage on the Fundy Shore once occupied by Father of Confederation Sir Charles Tupper, I heard from Harriett McCready.
Native Indians Rescued Fortress Louisbourg Altar
Aug 25, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Little Acadian villages scattered along the west coast of Cape Breton feel winter’s roar like few others. Vicious winds called Les Suêtes scream through the highlands behind >Cap LeMoine, prompting visions of witches howling near the corners of the house, wailing and moaning and screeching through the night.
Maritime Food: All You Need To Know About Oyster Folklore
Aug 25, 2017 | Arts & Culture
The solitary oyster safely dominates the list of such mysterious aphrodisiacs as ground reindeer antlers, garter belts and black silk stockings.
It is said that the crafty Casanova devoured dozens of them before setting out to prove his masculinity.
Halifax Flag Store Does Not Sell Confederate Flag
Aug 25, 2017 | Arts & Culture
One flag you won’t find at my favourite Halifax flag store is the Confederate flag.
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.
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