Category Archives: Conditions for Community Health

Moonlight Restaurant, Main Street

Moonlight Restaurant, early days. Photo Courtesy of Robert Cedric Brown on Old Photos of Antigonish Town and County Can anyone confirm that this is Pearl MacPherson, the long time waitress at the Moonlight Restaurant —  and the epitome of great service?

Under the Dome:

A man and his dog, both wearing masks, walk along a small alley on a hazy day in Beijing. China’s capital raised its four-tiered alert system to “orange” for the first time on February 20, 2015. (REUTERS/Legal Evening/Liu Chang) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhIZ50HKIp0 http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-march-4-2015-1.2981015/under-the-dome-confronts-china-s-dire-air-pollution-crisis-1.2981025 Chai Jing, the filmmaker of Under the Dome, is interviewed on CBC Radio’s The […]

Bethlem Museum of the Mind Opens in London

Artist Richard Dadd, a patient at Bethlem (courtesy Bethlem Gallery and Museum)   http://hyperallergic.com/184820/bedlams-new-museum-looks-beyond-madness/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Your+Concise+Guide+to+Armory+Week+2015&utm_content=Your+Concise+Guide+to+Armory+Week+2015+CID_30cfa9a17c4d2e6dddd6ca876fbc0601&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter&utm_term=Bedlams%20New%20Museum%20Looks%20Beyond%20Madness The name Bedlam is so evocative of chaos and madness, the real history of one of the world’s oldest institutions for the treatment of mental illness often gets detached from its public presence. Bethlem Royal Hospital, which still operates as part of South London […]

Pipers, Highland Games 1940

This photo was submitted by Mike Brown to the Old Photos of Antigonish Town and County web site.  A very professional photograph — could it be a Ronnie Jaques photo from the 1940s Highland Games?  It is not included among those registered at the National Library and Archives of Canada.

Photographer Levi Bettwieser Develops 31 Lost Film Rolls Taken by World War II Soldier

http://hyperallergic.com/176743/photographer-develops-31-lost-film-rolls-taken-by-world-war-ii-soldier/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Photographer+Develops+31+Lost+Film+Rolls+Taken+by+World+War+II+Soldier&utm_content=Photographer+Develops+31+Lost+Film+Rolls+Taken+by+World+War+II+Soldier+CID_4813bb77ac4edf306a51205bd28715c4&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter Photographer Levi Bettwieser has an unusual passion: he hunts down and develops old film rolls left inside vintage cameras or forgotten by their owners in the backs of musty drawers. He sees himself as “rescuing” the images from oblivion. “I believe if we weren’t actually searching for and finding these rolls of film, they could be […]

1910 Freight Charges New Glasgow to Antigonish

In 1910 Freight Charges from New Glasgow to Antigonish a whopping $.30 and delivery made by the Stage Driver Scanned image courtesy of Robert Inglis on Old Photos of Antigonish Town and County

Photographer Christian Berthelot captures the Raw Images of Birth

“Far from the clichés and platitudes, I wanted to show us, as we are when we are born,” photographer Christian Berthelot explains in his artist statement. Far from the pristine images of rosy-cheeked babies we’re often used to digesting, Berthelot’s raw photographs capture babies as almost alien creatures — naked, screaming and drenched in bodily juices.   […]

Antigonish Hunters

This photo was posted on the Old Photos of Antigonish Town and County  website with a request for identifying these folks.