Thursday, we went to Bridgetown to pick up COVID test kits at the Legion. The event was coordinated by the local Search and Rescue team.
It was a very efficient drive through operation. Thanks to Debby and Rocky Hebb for passing on the information. This event contrasted with the occupation in Ottawa, watched on the CBC.
Friday, we endured another Winter storm; rain and melting snow. The result was flooding at the junction of Highway #201 and Paradise Lane. Jack Pearl’s farm house was an island. Towards Bridgetown, the Annapolis River had overflowed its banks. I wonder if there was any aerial photography — demonstrating the impact of climate change in the County.
And, how does this mesh with the Municipal Climate Change Action Plan?
Sunday, we extended our exploration to Annapolis Royal. Heather wanted to stop at the Red Onion Market health food store. I wanted to drop into the Mad Hatter bookstore. On the shelf, I found Another Plague Year Reader, a sampler of books published by Gaspereau Press in 2021. It was FREE.
The Reader includes an interview with Andrew Steeves, examples of poetry publications, prose and limited editions.Finally, books likely to appear in 2022.
February 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of Gaspereau Press.
February 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of Gaspereau Press.
In the words of Steeves (p.13) :
”I tend to think that the most important thing we have been doing is helping and equipping others, whether by providing cultural infrastructure and support to authors in the here and now or by providing an example, an imaginative and philosophical framework that perhaps others will be able to build on in the future.”
”For me the anniversary makes me think about our role in the complex life of the community, alongside writers, readers, booksellers, librarians, historians, artists and our printing clients. I feel that this work has allowed Gary and me to have a meaningful impact on the cultural landscape at this time and in this place, however subtle.”
Poets and authors in the sampler include Bren Simmers, George Elliott Clarke, Soren Bondrup-Nielsen and many others. Gaspeau Press produce books that are a pleasure to read and hold.
Acknowledgements
Debby and Rocky Hebb for their watchfulness. Andrew Steeves and Gary Dunfield for ’making books that reinstate the importance of the book as a physical object’. Edward added the graphics and the links. Heather shared the journey.
References
Municipality of the Annapolis County, 2013, Municipal Climate Change Action Plan
Another Plague Year Reader, 2020, Gaspereau Press, Kentville.
Ernest Blair Experiment 