Arts & Culture

For those of us who grew up enjoying Hodge Podge, this traditional Maritime dish rivals steamed lobster as the personification of the taste of summer. One local food writer describes it as “food for the soul”, and so it is for those of us who delight in a whiff of salt air or in childhood memories of seemingly endless somnolent sunny afternoons.

The largest employer in New Ross is the charming Ross Farm Museum, where a farm was founded in 1817 and which operated for five generations.

Eight years after she was donated to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, a little piece of Nova Scotia’s sailing history was re-christened Friday evening in a ceremony beside Halifax’s Northwest Arm.

If you watched CTV News last week or perused its website then you are probably aware that we folks who live in the Maritimes do not reside among the best places to live in Canada. CTV reported July 6 that MoneySense Magazine’s annual list of best places to live in Canada failed to recognize a single Maritime community as being in the top 100 Canadian places to live.

When 30 tall ships sail into the Port of Halifax in late July and early August, the host partner Waterfront Development Corporation ought to have a memorial service at a local church to remember the charming—and Nova Scotia-built—tall ship Bounty.

Nova Scotia in Film

A periodic examination of films with Nova Scotia connections

Last weekend, John Rance talked the virtues of the Big Green Egg to so-called Egghead enthusiasts at Truro’s barbecue and fireplace store, Warmth By Design, attracting hundreds to an Egg demonstration.