A Place, A Time

Today, by chance, I received a book from my brother Peter on my 75th birthday. It is called ‘A Place’.It shows thirteen pairs of images from Whitton (Middlesex, England).
On the left-hand page, a historic photograph and text explanation; on the right, an impressionist painting of the same location, today. Beautifully designed and published as a limited edition.

Yesterday, I was tidying up some papers in the basement. From 2004, I found two proposals.

1) Developing the ‘Centre of Rural Living’ concept at the Annapolis Valley campus, Nova Scotia Community College.

2) Model for Rural Development and Community Capacity Building. ‘ Applied Geomatics Innovation Cluster’. NSCC, WVDA, Annapolis and Digby Counties, NS.

Here we are sixteen years later. Sounds like an Innovation Hub to me!

Last week, Logan, my grandson living in Peterborough, Ontario sent me his world map. I reciprocated with photographs of two maps from my study. Polar Knowledge Canada and The Earth from Space, signed by Tom van Sant, from California days, 12/12/90.

With the storms, I have been catching up with my reading, especially the work of David Adams Richards. In Harry Thurston’s book The Sea’s Voice: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Nature Writing, I found ‘Land’ from David Suzuki’s When the Wild Comes Leaping Up. It describes the back to the land movement in the Miramichi region of New Brunswick. As Thurston says:

“In all of his writing, Richards casts an uncompromising but compassionate eye on his subject, as he does in this essay about going back to the land”. P.232.

Acknowledgements

Peter Maher for his historical research and artist’s eye. Logan Root-Maher for cartographic enthusiasm. Edward Wedler for his artist’s eye and graphics skills.

References

Peter Maher. 2020. A Place. Editions La Liberté. Clermont-L’Herault.
Harry Thurston. 2005. The Sea’s Voice: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Nature Writing. Nimbus Publishing.
David Suzuki (Ed). 2002. When the Wild Comes Leaping Up. Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.