Slow Down

This weekend we were in New Glasgow. Sunday, we decided to ‘SLOW DOWN’.

After a brief stop at the Whistleberry Market (exit #20 on Hwy#104) we drove through the Rawdon Hills.

We knew them years ago, when we both lived in Clarence, Annapolis County.

As is our way, we picked up a brochure about the local economy: Avon River, 2026-2027 Arts and Culture Guide. We could not help noticing the wonderful cartography by Marcel Morin, Lost Art Cartography with a base map, based on NS LiDAR.

Besides being an example of the ‘creative rural economy’, it reminded me to stop by NSCC COGS in Lawrencetown. There are many examples of his creative design on the walls outside the AV room.

It reminded me too of his work at the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Grand Pré.

We decided to ‘slow down’. Take Exit 10 on Highway 101. We stopped at the Visitor Centre, watched a film about the deportation of the Acadiens. We walked to the View Park. Of course, we picked up another brochure, again the work of Marcel Morin.

From the brochure:

“The cultural landscape of Grand Pré bears exceptional testimony to a traditional farming settlement created in the 1680’s by the Acadiens in an intertidal area, with tides over 11 metres, among the highest in the world. The land reclamation used traditional techniques of dykes, aboiteaux (wood sluices) and a drainage network, as well as a community-based management system still in use today’.

SLOW DOWN.
Lessons can be learned from community-based management today. Especially when combined with excellent Cartography.

Postscript

One last brochure ‘10 wonders of Digby’. For another day…..

References

Landscape of – le Paysage de Grand Pre. a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Avon River 2026-2027 Arts and Culture Guide.
10 Wonders of Digby.