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Music Travel Monday Destination: Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia Music: Celtic Colours Festival By Kerry Dexter As October brings a crisp edge to the air and leaves start to take on their autumn colors, music fills the air even more than it usually does across the island of Cape Breton, in Nova Scotia. It’s time [...]
These two Quebecois sisters played dress-up as Acadian settlers at Ft. Anne, the birthplace of Canada, in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. The museum there has hands-on activities for children in every room.
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Destination: Montreal area, Canada Book: A Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny (NEW 8/30/2011) from St. Martin’s Press and Macmillan Audio Thank you, Macmillan Audio, for sending me on CD just in time for my road trip to Santa Fe. A mystery is just the thing for our road [...]
Destination: Nova Scotia Book: My Famous Evening (2004) by Howard Norman Howard Norman, American writer, focuses on Nova Scotia in this eclectic book. Like one of those patchwork quilts made of individual squares that tell facets of a story, reflects Norton’s view of the essentials of Nova Scotia in an introduction and five essays/stories that [...]
No books or movies today–”just” a trip. Although if you would like to know about some movies made in Nova Scotia, there are quite a few, not to mention a current TV SyFy channel show, Haven. which was partially filmed in Lunenberg, and other Nova Scotia locations.
Destination: Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada Book: , Edited by Kristie Miller and Robert H. McGinnis “It has been such lovely weather that just to be alive was all one wanted….” Eleanor Roosevelt in letter to Isabella Greenway in August, 1906. Isabella Greenway was the first female member of Congress form Arizona and built The [...]
The Great American Road Trip Destination: Alaska Movie: Insomnia (2002) (Note: The photographs here were taken by Alan Hull, and supplied by the blog My Itchy Travel Feet. Although they reflect the beauty of Alaska, they are not from the same area as the film.) Two kinds of people live in Alaska. Those who were [...]
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The Great American Road Trip Destination: The Great Lakes, Middle America (U.S. and Canada) Book: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the GREAT LAKES (2008) by Ted McClelland
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