A DOOR THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE: Submit now and often for an Award for the Winning Entry

A DOOR THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE CONTEST DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 31, 2015. SUBMIT YOUR IMAGES AND PHOTOS TODAY It is remarkable how many of the photos in the IMAGINE ANTIGONISH collection feature doors and doorways, portals and gates, often as a frame for family photos or activities. The Imagine Antigonish team […]

John MacIntyre 1826 – 1916

This photo was contributed to the Old Photos of Antigonish blog with this annotation from Daniel Matta: This is my great great great great grandfather, John Macintyre(3/15/1826-1916). He came to Antigonish with his parents John Macintyre and Marion Mary Sarah McPhee came to Antigonish from Scotland. They came in the early 1800s. John married Flora […]

Lou Bopp’s Photos of the Last Remaining Old School Mississippi Blues Musicians

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/12/lou-bopp_n_6445360.html?ir=Good+News&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000023 Since 2008, photographer Lou Bopp has been capturing the now elderly men who constitute the Mississippi Delta Blues musicians of a previous era. With calloused hands, worn faces and twinkling eyes, the blues artists are living remnants of a bygone time, one of juke joints and fiery soul. James “Super Chikan” Johnson, bluesman, in his guitar […]

Don Harron dead age 90

http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/canadian-actor-writer-don-harron-dead-at-90-1.2193644 For those of us who grew up with Anne of Green Gables and then Charlie Farquharson on Hee Haw, can anyone doubt that this icon of Canadian culture was good for our health? Charlie Farquharson, a fictitious folksy story teller from Parry Sound, Ont. who poked fun at almost anything Canadian, became a cult classic […]

David Goldblatt: Photographing the Crossroads of Life and Death in South Africa

Squatter camp on the fringe of the N1 highway, Woodstock, Cape Town, August 22, 2006 Beginning in the 1940s, South African photographer David Goldblatt documented the people and landscapes of his country in striking black and white. It was only after apartheid that he felt comfortable with color in his work. In Regarding Intersections, published this October by Steidl, Goldblatt’s photographs […]

2Fik: A Healing Response to the Charlie Hebdo Attack from an Arab, an Artist and a Frenchman

2Fik Self-Portrait 2015 After reacting as an Arab, I then reacted as an artist. To me, an artist who dies for their art is nearly the most beautiful expression of their success. This is where my obvious love of drama and theatrics becomes apparent. Moreover, as cheesy as it sounds, Charb’s affirmation resonated with me: “I’d […]

Antigonish Jail closes January 2015

The new 196-bed Northeast Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Priestville, Pictou County, near New Glasgow and Thorburn, is set to open next month and will replace both the Amherst jail and the 17-bed Antigonish Correctional Facility. “This week, we began transferring offenders,” said Tim Carroll, superintendent of the new Pictou County jail. “By the end […]

Genealogist Stephen White to talk about Pomquet’s Founding Families, January 11, 2:00 p.m.

Well known genealogist Stephen White Author of“Dictionnaire des familles Acadiennes“ will speak on the founding families in Pomquet with emphasis on the founding women and using mitrochondrial DNA testing to establish maternal lines going back to the first women in Acadie Àt la SASC Pomquet (next to the Glebe House) 1154 Monks Head […]