Arts & Culture

As Shag Harbour prepares to host a UFO symposium and a celebration of a 50-year-old UFO mystery, at the end of September, a university student is writing his thesis on the strange and bizarre and even out of this world incident from October 4, 1967.

A ‘must read’ among lovers of shellfish is the quaint cookbook, How To Make Love To A Lobster, first printed in 1988.

A neat way to forecast a grand and glorious day at the beach is to survey the morning lawn – when it is covered with dew.

Brig-Gen Colin Curleigh (Ret’d), who died last week at age 81, led an active retirement life after settling in Parrsboro’s Green Hill, and was largely responsible for rescuing the summer cottage known as Ottawa House, once occupied by Sir Charles Tupper.

As summer wanes, a key discussion around the cottage is the transfer of the favourite property oasis to the next generation.

For some sailors, turning left at the mouth of Halifax Harbour just doesn’t seem natural. The pull of heading in the opposite direction is strong, with plenty of gunkholes to anchor en route to Mahone Bay.

Last year’s Gay Pride annual general meeting debacle was at the centre of speeches at the first ever Pride Shabbat dinner hosted last weekend by the Atlantic Jewish Council. Some still had wounds they were dealing with, but leaders on both sides are trying to make sure everyone feels included in Pride in the future.

The historical commission that looks after Sherbrooke Village museum on the province’s Eastern Shore has joined the Nova Scotia Pension Association (NSPA) after almost going bankrupt.

As I sit here at the rural Nova Scotia Beach Bureau of The Macdonald Notebook, I am fixated — obsessed rather — on the expiry date of cream cartons.