This week, Heather and I spent a few days in Pictou County. It included walks in Trenton Park and along Melmerby Beach (see also A Tale of Two Geographies).
At the Highland Mall in New Glasgow, I found a copy of Donald Savoie’s biography of John Bragg, The Rural Entrepreneur. It details his efforts with Oxford Frozen Foods and EastLink. Savoie provides an excellent description of the creative rural economy in Nova Scotia.
While in Pictou, we stopped at the deCoste Arts Centre and the accompanying library. I signed out Edward MacDonald’s, The Geography of Home: Poems for a Lost Time. A different example of the creative rural economy; in this case, the setting is rural PEI.
Today, I received online, the March newsletter of Atlantic Books entitled ‘Defend Nova Scotia Books’.
“One of the biggest clouds on the horizon this month has been the looming threat of planned cuts to Arts, Culture and Tourism funding by the government of Nova Scotia”.
References
Donald J. Savoie, 2022, The Rural Entrepreneur, John Bragg: The Force behind Oxford Frozen Foods and EastLink, Nimbus Publishing.
Edward MacDonald, 2025, The Geography of Home: Poems for a Lost Time, Island Studies Press at UPEI.
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Acknowledgements
Edward added the graphics and suggestions to the blog. He is back home in Nova Scotia.
Ernest Blair Experiment 