This week, we had to spend a couple of days in Pictou County. This provided us with the opportunity to visit the deCoste cultural hub in Pictou and the Museum of Industry in Stellarton (see also Pictou Visit) .
As before, I am impressed by the combination of the theatre, the art gallery and the library in downtown Pictou. It makes me reflect on what is the equivalent in Annapolis County? At the Centre, I discovered information on ‘Our Climate Quest’, a special exhibition at the Museum of Industry. This includes a series of Climate Conversations: a guest speaker series and a new exhibition by Science North.
Before heading to New Glasgow, I stopped at the Middleton Library.
There, I found The Interior Silence by Sarah Sands. ‘My encounters with Calm, Joy and Compassion at 10 Monasteries around the World.’
Light reading; designed to take me away from Donald Trump and the tariff wars.
Making the trip from Middleton to New Glasgow, we were fortunate to be accompanied by Gordon Lightfoot.
‘Country Road’ and other songs that illustrate the relationship between Canadians and their landscape.
This landscape is not simply a set of resources for exploitation, nor something to be traded away to the highest bidder. Within Nova Scotia, there is a diversity and richness that is not ‘up for grabs’. The landscape (aka Geography) cannot be separated from the people who share that richness.
Acknowledgements.
Heather took the winding road through the Rawdon Hills with me to Pictou County. Edward added his touch.
Reference
Sarah Sands, 2021, The Interior Silence: My Encounters with Calm, Joy and Compassion at 10 Monasteries around the World, Chronicle Prism.
Ernest Blair Experiment 