https://www.united-church.ca/worship-special-days/pride-sunday On June 2, 2019 The United Church of Canada will be celebrating an official Pride Sunday for the first time! We encourage all to celebrate the lives and ministry of LGBTQIA+ and Two Spirit people. Pride Sunday worship resources will be added throughout the year, acknowledging that communities of faith celebrate at different times. […]
Dorothy Lander interviewed her brother David about the healing power of magic in January, 2019, almost exactly three months before his death on April 25, 2019. This video excerpt from their conversation was shown at the Celebration of Life for David Lander in Cobourg, Ontario on May 19, 2019. The main room could not accommodate […]
Inverness Oran April 10 2019 Page 18-2Inverness Oran April 10 2019 John Gillis story Page 19-2 HARP The People’s Press presented photos with a Cape Breton story line from its first publication, The People’s Photo Album, at Parkland Cape Breton on April 4. John Gillis, reporter for The Inverness Oran witnessed how the room came […]
https://www.facebook.com/AntigonishPeoplesPlace/videos/236596153951597/?t=3 It is also available on Anne Camozzi’s YouTube channel. A new art and communications genre for Anne Camozzi, her Facebook Live presentation on Feb. 19, 2019, hosted by the People’s Place Library Antigonish, was a gift to the world and especially to those living with disabilities and chronic pain and social isolation. Anne invited […]
https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/living/the-book-shelf-shining-a-light-on-unnoticed-heroes-282768/ The Chronicle Herald, Lifestyles Section, The Book Shelf by Allison Lawlor, Saturday, Febuary 9, 2019 Allison Lawlor’s story highlights the books by John Graham-Pole – Journeys with a Thousand Heroes: A Child Oncologist’s Story – and Dorothy Lander – The People’s Photo Album: A Pictorial Genealogy of the Antigonish Movement. Allison also introduces the […]
Wellcome Library contributed this etching by Willem van der Leeuw (1603-1665) after Rembrandt from their collection on Twitter on Jan. 24, 2019, with this caption: The boy David playing the harp before Saul. Saul is mentally ill (“mala mens et amara Sauli est”): the music soothes his disturbed mind. More affirmation for choosing the harp […]
Karen Smith’s YouTube on The Stigma and Social Consequences of Chronic Pain has just topped 10,000 views. For the past 35 years, Karen has been an eloquent and unstoppable advocate and spokesperson for people living with chronic pain, ever since this invisible disability required her to step down from the work she loved as the […]
The virtuoso boy harpist Master Joseph Tudor Hughes (1827-1841), Welsh musical infant prodigy who performed before royalty and at the White House. Alas he drowned in the Hudson River in 1841. Wellcome Library on Twitter (@WellcomeLibrary) is featuring prints of harps from its catalogue the week of Jan. 21 to 25, 2019.
Moses Coady, Graphic Novel This excerpt from Moses Coady, Graphic Novel, by Donald Calabrese, appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Summer 2018. The role of genealogy (the Irish rebel bloodline) and the combined forces of these very different double cousins in the Antigonish Movement is also a theme in The People’s Photo Album: A Pictorial Genealogy […]
The government partners who put up the money, the planners and roadbuilders celebrated the official opening of the Highway Exchange at Paqtnkek (access at Exit 36-B) on January 15, 2019. Photo Courtesy of Paqtnkek Facebook: L to R: Randy Delorey, MLA, Nova Scotia; Roger Cuzner, MP Cape Breton-Canso; Lloyd Hines, NS Minister of Transportation; Sean […]
