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.
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Sailing Excursion From Halifax To Bras d’Or Lake
Aug 4, 2017 | Arts & Culture
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.
Cottage Life: Summertime, We Hardly Knew Ye
Aug 4, 2017 | Arts & Culture
As I sit here at the rural Nova Scotia Beach Bureau of The Macdonald Notebook, I am fixated — obsessed rather — on the expiry date of cream cartons.
How Sherbrooke Village Averted A Pension Bankruptcy
Aug 4, 2017 | Arts & Culture
The historical commission that looks after Sherbrooke Village museum on the province’s Eastern Shore has joined the Nova Scotia Pension Association (NSPA) after almost going bankrupt.
Chester Chatter: Tim Harris’ Jeep Passion
Jul 28, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Tim Harris has been on a fitness kick, and the prominent real estate broker — once a bit portly, is looking healthy and fit after shedding 70 pounds. This article contains before and after pictures of Harris’ fitness regime.
Maritime Recipe: Alice’s Hodge Podge
Jul 28, 2017 | Arts & Culture
For those of us who grew up enjoying Hodge Podge, this traditional Maritime dish rivals steamed lobster as the personification of the taste of summer. One local food writer describes it as “food for the soul”, and so it is for those of us who delight in a whiff of salt air or in childhood memories of seemingly endless somnolent sunny afternoons.
South Shore Notes: A Visit To Quaint Ross Farm Museum
Jul 21, 2017 | Arts & Culture
The largest employer in New Ross is the charming Ross Farm Museum, where a farm was founded in 1817 and which operated for five generations.
Famed Schooner Re-Launched In Halifax
Jul 14, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Eight years after she was donated to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, a little piece of Nova Scotia’s sailing history was re-christened Friday evening in a ceremony beside Halifax’s Northwest Arm.
Opinion: Pity Me, For I Live In Chester, Almost Dead Last In ‘Livability’
Jul 14, 2017 | Arts & Culture
If you watched CTV News last week or perused its website then you are probably aware that we folks who live in the Maritimes do not reside among the best places to live in Canada. CTV reported July 6 that MoneySense Magazine’s annual list of best places to live in Canada failed to recognize a single Maritime community as being in the top 100 Canadian places to live.
Tall Ships: Remembering The Bounty
Jul 7, 2017 | Arts & Culture
When 30 tall ships sail into the Port of Halifax in late July and early August, the host partner Waterfront Development Corporation ought to have a memorial service at a local church to remember the charming—and Nova Scotia-built—tall ship Bounty.
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