This week, Heather and I stayed local, to Annapolis County.
I attended a book signing by Steve Skafte at the MacDonald Museum in Middleton.
The book ‘Outskirts of Ordinary. Stories of Survival from the Annapolis Valley. Locations include Greenwood, Beaconsfield, Bridgetown, West Dalhousie, Berwick and Round Hill. Steve includes interviews with ten individuals in the region.
His previous books have covered lost roads and other treasures in the landscape (read previous posts Old Ways and Kings County).
On Tuesday, we stopped at ArtsPlace in Annapolis Royal. There were several displays on the theme : How trees influence Western Culture in the Modern Era; Wandering through Trees. Nature and Culture. And the response by local artists to the Long Lake Fire, Summer 2025.
For interest, read previous ArtsPlace posts: Arts for Life, As Time Goes By and Rising to the Challenge.
References
Steve Skafte, 2026, Outskirts of Ordinary: Stories of Survival from Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. Self-published.
Follow his daily journal online steveskafte.substack.com
Wandering through trees, Nature and Culture, ArtsPlace Gallery, April 18 – May 30, 2026, Annapolis Royal.
How trees Influence Western Culture in the Modern Era, Information compiled by Doug Pope for the Robert Pope Foundation (Handout at the ArtsPlace Gallery).
Acknowledgements
Edward added the graphics and links. Much appreciated.
Postscript
Edward’s eleven-year old grandson, Tristan, from Saint Catharines, just celebrated his first anniversary with his YouTube Channel “United Mapping 01“, and has racked up about 370 YouTube shorts and almost 4,000 subscribers. As a reward, his mom updated his CapCut video editing software to Pro.
Ernest Blair Experiment 