Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Reunion Chair: Allan Armsworthy : aarmsworthy@eastlink.ca
Communications: Garth Staples —gestaples@eastlink.ca
Website: http://www.armsworthyheritage.com/contacts.html
The following is a short account of the Armsworthy geneology:
Read More...»Friday, May 23rd, 2008
The Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia, (TIANS), held its AGM on May 23-24 at Liscombe Lodge on the Eastern Shore. Opening with a reception at Sherbrooke Village, members and guests were greeted by George Brothers and his staff and treated to an evening of fiddle playing by Alan Chapman with Brothers as guitar accompaniment, and a chowder supper by Gabrieau’s Bistro, (Antigonish).
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Mulgrave Road Theatre announced today that it will be establishing a script commission fund in memory of former Artistic Director Allena MacDonald who passed away on January 14, 2008.
Read More...»Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Mulgrave Road Theatre has a weekend of belly laughs planned for July, 2008. Headlining a weekend of comedy will be CODCO allumnist Andy Jones, fresh from an appearance at the prestigious Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Vancouver. His one man show ‘An Evening with Uncle Val’ will open at the Chedabucto Place Performance Centre in Guysborough on July 25th.
Read More...»Saturday, May 17th, 2008
“Rhythms of the World” an interactive percussion workshop for children has been touring schools across the Atlantic provinces. On Friday May 16th 2008, Keith Mullins presented the workshop to students at Fannng Elementary School, in Hazel Hill, Guysborough. Focusing on the three traditional sounds from the drums of Africa, Keith Mullins demonstrates each instrument, weaving the history and culture of the traditional sounds of Africa into the music.
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Over the two days that our guests were with us I discovered all sorts of incredible bits of history; fragments of stories about Canso and the history of the Whitman family and of what is now Whitman Wharf House Bed and Breakfast. “Every week my grandmother had tea,” Joan explained as she went on to describe how the social elite of the Town of Canso, each had a day when they were home to receive guests for tea.