Heather has been busy collecting up the acorns from under the mature red oaks in our backyard. Today, we delivered a pail for the Seed Saving Talk by Dr. Niki Clark at the Lower Granville Hall, Saturday May 3, 1-2 pm. This activity coincided with the first lawn mowing of the season.
We stopped by Endless Shores bookstore. We wanted to obtain a copy of the place-mat illustrating the Goldsmith Lake Calicioids. This became a $20 donation to SOOF.
Further to my earlier blog ‘Local Libations Map’, John Wightman found an excellent map of the Wines of Nova Scotia. Produced in 2017 by the Winery Association of Nova Scotia.
The cartography and the graphics design illustrate the superb work of Marcel Morin at Lost Art Cartography. Quite a contrast to the Libations Map in the Grapevine.
At the Inside Bookstore in Greenwood, earlier this week, I was able to purchase Ken McGoogan’s ‘Shadows of Tyranny: Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship’.
From the cover:
‘McGoogan’s takes a biographical approach to history, creating a montage of individual experiences. It includes George Orwell, Sinclair Lewis, Norman Bethune and Winston Churchill’.
‘He delves into dictatorships of the twentieth century to sound the crucial alarm about the possibility of a democratic collapse in the US – and its implications for Canada.’
At the moment, I am halfway through – including the Spanish Civil War. The second half covers Hitler and the Second World War. It is heavy reading in these difficult times.
References
Ken McGoogan, 2024, Shadows of Tyranny: Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship. Douglas and McIntyre.
Wines of Nova Scotia, 2017, Explore our Nova Scotia Wineries.
Goldsmith Lake Calicioides, Stubble Lichens and Fungi surveyed in mixed forest west of Goldsmith Lake, 2022-2023.
Ernest Blair Experiment 