On Tuesday, Heather and I took a drive up the Valley. The first stop was Tides Art Gallery in Kentville. Unfortunately, they are closed on Tuesday. Instead, We stopped in at Gaspereau Press.
I picked up another Plague Year Reader, recently published excerpts in 2023. It included Sea Run: Notes on John Thompson’s Stilt Jack by Peter Sanger.
Our final destination was the ArtCan Kitchen & Studios café for an early brunch. I remembered their excellent home made soup and bread. The cafe in Canning overlooks the Gaspereau River. Besides art books and supplies, they had for sale books by Dick Groot (Geographer) and Soren Bondrup- Nielsen (Ecologist).
On our return trip, we took the backroad (Hwy #221) through orchards and vineyards. On a blue sky day the fields which had been recently ploughed, were shining bright.
Last stop: Berwick, at North Mountain Fine Coffees, I refurbished our supply of ground, French Roast Dark beans.
Postscript
This weekend, I rediscovered Theodore Roszak in the bookcase and am re-reading The Making of an Elder Culture; very relevant today.
I found the latest issue of The Canning Gazette. Spring and Mud are Here.
Acknowledgements
Edward added the graphics and links. Heather shared the drive.
References
Gaspereau Press, Gary Dunfield and Andrew Steeves, 2023, Yet Another Plague Year Reader.
Soren Bondrup- Nielsen, 2014, Merging: Contemplations on Farming and Ecology from Horseback, Gaspereau Press.
Dick Groot, 2012, Come From Away: Artists of Minas Basin. A documentary of a little known migration.
Theodore Roszak, 2009, The Making of an Elder Culture, New Society Publishers.
The Canning Gazette, April 2024, Issue 439, Jodi DeLong, Editor.
Ernest Blair Experiment 