On our way home from Heather’s eye check-up in New Minas, we stopped in Kentville. I was looking for a copy of Peter Sanger’s book Spar: Words in Place. I went to the office of the Gaspereau Press. I was not disappointed. I found a single copy; as well, I picked up Audubon in Nova Scotia by Eric Mills.
From Sanger’s Foreword:
These essays are pauses during which I looked at a map. Their concerns are the ways in which we take words with us when we journey, what they do with our conversation while we travel, and how we may learn to live with their consequence when we have found a destination. p.13.
I remember reading the first essay, Biorachan Road, sometime after we had walked the same route. Perhaps, as part of our ’Road to Georgetown’ trek.
Eric Mills describes Audubon’s trip from Pictou (August 22,1833) to Windsor (August 29, 1833) via Truro and Halifax. it is an excerpt from Audubon’s journal.
”What had brought this British province to Audubon’s attention? It had to be one, or perhaps both, of two connections involving bird collection, both centering on the educator and Presbyterian clergyman, Thomas McCulloch, who at that time lived in Pictou.
McCulloch established the Pictou Academy, providing education beyond grammar school level to local youth. McCulloch’s philosophy of education was broadly based. He believed that Nova Scotian students should receive an education not based solely on the classics, but on knowledge useful to students and their communities. In this, religion, the classics and especially knowledge of the natural world were of prime importance. And the natural world could be taught well with the aid of equipment for experiments in the physical sciences and the use of museum collections, primarily animals, notably birds.’ p.18. Sounds relevant today!
This morning, we stopped at Joanne’s Cafe, Chocolates and Books in Annapolis Royal. I found a copy of Buckler’s Whirligig and an old school book from the Baddeck Rural High School Library. The Land and People of Canada by Frances Ross, published in 1947. More reading.
Acknowledgements
Heather shared the book discovery travel from Kentville to Annapolis Royal. Edward added the graphics.
References
Peter Sanger, 2002, Spar: Words in Place, Gaspereau Press.
Eric L. Mills, 2018, Audubon in Nova Scotia, Gaspereau Press.
Ernest Buckler, 1977, Whirligig: Selected Prose and Verse, McClelland and Stewart (eBook link)
Frances Aileen Ross, 1947, The Land and People of Canada. Longmans, Green and Co.
Ernest Blair Experiment 
Hi Bob,
I am still working my way through Water Log. I think you read a book as fast as I read a page! I was recently given all of Ern’s novels as well as two copies of Claude Bissell’s biography of Ern. Would you like any of them as I already have all of them?
Jane Borecky 😀
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Jane:
I am a terrible ‘speed reader’.That’s why I have had to write two blogs on Words in Place. Second one will be tomorrow.
I have copies of all the Buckler works.
Thanks, for the thought.
Bob
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Have you ever seen the short YouTube skit where two Scots have trouble with Voice Recognition elevators?
I included this link as part of my post in “Atlantic Canadian Artists Exploring Artificial Intelligence” where Artificial Intelligence can discriminate based on accent.
Since you have an accent, Bob, I think you might be in trouble.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/comment/2021/11/07/accents-and-ai-how-speech-recognition-software-could-lead-to-new-forms-of-discrimination/
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I laughed until I cried ! Thanks.
It is a comment on the technology too.
Bob
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