Category Archives: Cooperative Arts

Update on Imagine Antigonish in The Casket, November 5, 2014

http://www.thecasket.ca/archives/41923 Emily Hiltz interviewed us in the Antigonish Heritage Museum, and how skilfully she has crafted this story from our far-ranging conversation.  We chose this banner for the photo deliberately because it represents the diversity of the Antigonish community — the Mi’kmaq, Acadians, Dutch, Chinese, Scots — and the co-op housing movement.    And look […]

1866 Headstone uncovered at Tenbrinke home in St. Andrews

  http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=484097   This CTV story with Dan MacIntosh unfolds the story of the 1866 headstone of Catherine Livingstone, found buried at doorstep of the 150-year old home of Mary and Jerry Tenbrinke in St. Andrews. Catherine MacGillivray, an amateur researcher with the Antigonish Heritage Museum, says a major clue in solving the mystery of the headstone […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

The Regimental Piper in the Great War

  Over a 1000 pipers died during WWI. These extraordinary men were sitting ducks as they went over the top to pipe their men into battle. Piper Harry Lunan was the last surviving piper and he said, “I just played whatever came in to my head, but I was worried about tripping on the uneven […]