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 […]

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 […]

Come From Away on Land and Sea, CBC, January 4, 2015

http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/Shows/More+Shows/Land+and+Sea/ID/2645849603/ This first episode of CBC’s Land and Sea, broadcast on January 4, 2015 and entitled Come From Away, is tagged as “Sometimes it takes a ‘come from away’ to breathe new life into struggling rural communities.” The Maritime communities this episode focuses on include: Little Sand, Prince Edward Island (PEI); Inverness, Cape Breton; and […]

Antigonish Daguerreotypes

http://hyperallergic.com/169380/telling-the-history-of-photographic-processes-from-daguerreotypes-to-digital/ The George Eastman House released a 12-part video series last month that examines the history of photography from the perspective of its technology. Photographic Processes Series, available on YouTube, starts with the silhouette and traces photography’s development through daguerreotypes, cyanotypes, Kodachrome, and right up to digital. Scroll down for two daguerreotpye photographs of unidentified persons from the archives of […]

Tribute to the Sisters of St. Martha: Antigonish Heritage Museum, November 10, 2014 7:00 p.m.

“A Tribute to the Sisters of St Martha” Speaker: Fraser Dunn Time: 7pm Date: Monday Nov 10th Location: Antigonish Heritage Museum All are welcome.