Author Archives: Dorothy Lander

Secrets of the Creative Brain

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/06/secrets-of-the-creative-brain/372299/ The Secrets of the Creative Brain in the July/August 2014 issue of The Atlantic by Nancy C. Andreason, could have the effect of reinforcing the widely circulating idea that you have to be slightly mad to be a creative genius. Even this 1971  image of writer Kurt Vonnegut –his family has a history of mental illness […]

Hallowe’en Costume Party 1899 Halifax

This 1899 photo of a Hallowee’en costume party comes from the Nova Scotia Public Archives.  Any old photos of Hallowe’en parties or “trick and treat” activities from Antigonish.  This photo looks like the train station in Halifax’s South End, but it did not exist until 1928, replacing the North Street Station, built in 1877.  Could […]

The Mason Chapman Band 1980s

The Mason Chapman Band played Bloomfield Centre, the MacKay Room in the early 1980s.  Tell us what you remember if you were there.  I remember that it attracted students and the community and their music had everyone up  dancing. Rhythmically challenged, I’m not able to do the jive but my husband Patrick Napier and my […]

George Levick’s 1910 photographer’s notebook from Captain Scott’s Antarctic Hut

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/20/thaw-notebook-photographer-captain-scott-antarctic-hut   A photographer’s notebook lost for more than a century has washed out of the melting snow at Captain Scott’s hut in the Antarctic, the base for his fatal 1911 Terra Nova expedition. It was left behind when George Murray Levick, a photographer, surgeon and zoologist, returned safely with the surviving members of the party […]

Remembering Evelyn Mary Bayne and the old Clydesdale Schoolhouse

http://www.clcurry.com/obituaries/92274/ Evelyn Mary Bayne 1928-2014 Our condolences to the family and friends of Evelyn Mary Bayne.  As a tribute to her love of life and family, we post an image of the old Clydesdale Schoolhouse, which played such an important part in her life:   At a dance in the old Clydesdale schoolhouse, Evelyn met […]

Tennis for Everyone in 1900 & the Wearing of the Middy Blouse

        This photo from the Waldren Studio Collection, Dalhousie University is a glass negative inscribed in handwriting: Mrs. C. C. Gregory 1900.   Can anyone make the connection to Mrs. C. C. Gregory?  Or anyone else in this photo? Or, is there a written or remembered history of playing tennis in Antigonish, […]

House of Providence: Maternity Hospital in Antigonish 1914-1924

    This family home at 66 Hawthorne Street was operated as a Maternity Hospital by the Sisters of St Martha for 10 years: 1914 to 1924 and known as the House of Providence.  It was built around 1880 and was part of the Trotter lands and farms on Hawthorne Street. Henry McCurdy purchased this […]

Therapeutic Harp: Not just for Humans

http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1239076-primates-go-ape-over-a-little-music   Harpist Terri Tacheny long enjoyed taking her young daughters to Como Zoo in St. Paul, Minnesota, except for the Primate House, where she thought the gorillas, orangutans and monkeys seemed a little lethargic. Her solution: A little music. Now Tacheny, 57, a zoo volunteer, plays once a month for an appreciative audience that […]

Photogrammar: An interactive tool to search American photos of the Great Depression and WWII

http://www.southernstudies.org/2014/09/what-did-your-town-look-like-80-years-ago.html   A new tool called Photogrammar created by a Yale University team allows users to search pictures of Great Depression and World War II-era photos using an interactive map.  Is there anything comparable in Canada to view what our town looked like 80 years ago? The photos are from a collection created during the 1930s and 40s when […]