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October 15 – 29, 2015
EXHIBITS
MUSEUMS
Adeline MacInnes & Kay Lewis — CentreStage Theatre, Kentville • Hooked rugs on display. INFO: 902-678-8040 / centrestagetheatre.ca “Maritime Scenes” — Jack’s Gallery, Wolfville (in the JustUs! Café), through Nov. 8 • Paintings by Carol Morrison. INFO: acadiacinema.coop/ jacksgallery Mark Brennan — Harvest Gallery, Wolfville. Oct. 17– Nov. 15 • Mark is a self-taught painter who draws frequently on his background as a photographer in his work. INFO: gallery@harvestgallery.ca The REDress Project — Acadia Art Gallery, Wolfville. Until Nov. 29 • This large-scale installation by Jaime Black is comprised of collected “floating” red dresses and calls attention to missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada. INFO: gallery.acadiau.ca Apple Bin Art Gallery — Valley Regional Hospital, Kentville • Approximately 100 pieces of affordable original art created by local Valley artists. Part proceeds go towards hospital equipment and to help support Annapolis Valley health care programs. Judith J. Leidl — Oriel Fine Art, Wolfville • Fine art: floral paintings, scarves, acrylic paintings, prints, ceramics, and Inuit work from Baffin Island. INFO: 902-670-7422 / judithleidlart.com
Blue Beach Fossil Museum — 127 Blue Beach Road, Hantsport • Open daily 9:30am–5pm, until Oct. 31. The official birthplace of vertebrate paleontology in Canada. Come for one of our tours to explore 350-million year old footprint-beds, fossils of fish, plants, and so much more. INFO: 902-684-9541 / bluebeachfossilmuseum.com The Old Kings Courthouse Museum (Kings County Museum) — 37 Cornwallis St., Kentville. Open Mon.–Fri., 9am–4pm • Learn the history of Kings County with special focus on the Acadians and New England Planters. The Kings Historical Society and their Genealogy Center is also located in this building. Event: Witchcraft With Clary Croft – Oct. 24, 7pm. TIX: no admission, donations welcomed. INFO: 902-678-6237 / museum@okcm.ca / okcm.ca Ross Farm Museum — 4568 Hwy 12, New Ross • Open Wed–Sun, 9:30am–4:30pm. Milking a cow, spinning wool or tasting a delicious treat in the cottage are just three things that happen regularly here at Ross Farm. Every visit is unique as the work changes with the seasons. TIX: $6 adult, $5 senior, $2 child (6-17), no charge age 5 & under. INFO: 902-689-2210 / rossfarm.novascotia.ca Apple Capital Museum — 173 Commercial St., Berwick • INFO: 902-538-9229 / facebook.com/BerwickVICMuseum
Come From Away Kate Andrews-Day
Kate Andrews-Day is from Sydney, Australia. By a happy twist of fate she arrived in the Valley in December 2014. By the time the New Year began, she'd decided to stay. Kate lives in Wolfville and works in Port Williams. Dear Mum, At last, living in the Northern Hemisphere has celestially paid off. I watched the lunar eclipse of the Super-Harvest-Blood Moon from my front verandah before midnight, with clear skies and a night chill that was easily fended off by a thick jumper. The night skies in Autumn in the Valley are clearer and starrier than at any other time of the year – October is a great month for stargazing, and I’ve been trying to get to grips with the unfamiliar constellations. I keep looking for the Southern Cross, and remembering where I am. But the talk of the town the last couple of weeks wasn’t so much the super moon eclipse as the huge tides it generated. When I first arrived here last December, I was warned of the Nova Scotian tidal pride – every new person I met inevitably asked: “Did you know we have the highest tides in the world?” It was difficult to be impressed back then, because I was never outside long enough to watch it happen. I didn’t want to die of exposure, you know. But working in Port Williams, I drive over the dykes twice a day and, when I’m working, I park my car right on the riverbank. Well, with the super moon’s increased gravitational force, the river got so high I started to wonder about my car’s insurance policy and whether or not it covered flood damage. The high tide caused a traffic jam in Port Williams, too, with
Fire Chief Gerald E. Wood A.G. (Drew) Peck A tribute to the life of Gerald Wood will be held on Sunday, October 25 at 2pm at the Wolfville Fire Department (359 Main Street, Wolfville, NS). Chief Wood answered his last alarm on August 22, 2015 and a private service was held in Wolfville on August 30. The Wolfville Fire Department is hosting this tribute to celebrate Gerald’s dedication to the citizens of the area and to the Fire Service of Nova Scotia. A bronze plaque will be unveiled in memory of Chief Wood that will be later displayed in the WFD Veterans Park. Everyone is welcome to attend and share stories during an open microphone session that should be both thought provoking and entertaining.
people looking for places to pull over and take photos. Not sure if that’s ever happened in PW before. All joking aside, the force of the tides and the sheer volume of water that flows in and out of the Bay of Fundy every day is impressive – 100 billion tons, to be exact. According to Mi’kmaq legend, Glooscap wanted a bath one day and asked the beaver to dam the mouth of the river for him. The beaver did, creating the Bay of Fundy, but just as Glooscap was settling in to enjoy a long soak, the whale complained and demanded the water be returned to normal. So Glooscap told the beaver to break the dam down again, but the whale grew impatient with the beaver’s slow progress and started to smack his tail on the dam, creating massive swells that continue, to this day. Fortunately for the whales, the epic water movements churn up a lot of plankton, making the Bay an ideal feeding place for fifteen different species. So there you go. In other animal-related news, the word is that the wasps are building their nests high, which means we’re in for a snowy winter. I figure the wasps would know better than we would, right? With love, and missing you, Kate