The Ernst Family of Lunenburg are semi-finalists on Canada’s Got Talent. Please watch and vote/vote/vote for them. You can vote 50 times for the group. They are amazing singers. The video below is a beautiful rendition of Loch Lomond, and there are many more on YouTube. Check out the Canada’s Got Talent webpage on for [...]
Lunenburg is such a brilliant place to live, as this video shows:
Exciting things are happening around the old Blockhouse School near Mahone Bay. The 1962 building has been abandoned since the local French Acadian school moved to its new location outside Bridgewater in 2010. That left the property in the hands of the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg (MODL). Plan B was to bulldoze the [...]
This wonderful old footage of the Lunenburg waterfront in 1939 shows wooden sailboats, working dorys, and the fishermen of the time – grandfathers of today’s grandfathers. And fish. Lots of salt fish.
Only one day remains to vote for the Bay of Fundy as one of the New7Wonders of Nature. Recognition by this international organization would help put the Maritimes on the map and boost the tourism industry. Check out the VoteMyFundy.com website to solidify your reasons, then vote from the links you’ll find there. If you’re [...]
I just added 10 new photos to the Halifax section of the Photo Album. Most were taken during a harbour cruise on Tall Ship Silva one gorgeous afternoon last August. Theodore Too was looking especially perky that day, and Mar II was dressed to party.
Our 2012 calendar has a beautiful South Shore photo for every month of the year. Printed on demand by CaféPress in the US for $19.99 (USD). In my experience I haven’t ever had to pay duty on any printed material or books ordered from the US. Clothing is another story; if a t-shirt was not [...]
Storms don’t always coincide with high tides, but today’s nor’easter did. Tide was 2.2m (7.2 ft) late this morning (see this link for tide chart), and near the causeway to Oak Island the road was covered with several inches of water. In 8 years of watching storms here, this was the highest storm surge we’ve [...]
So Nova Scotia’s ships have finally come in with the announcement that the federal contract for combat ships, worth $25 billion over 30 years, has been awarded to Irving Shipbuilding in Halifax over a Vancouver yard, which received an $8 contract for non-combat ships, and the Davie shipyard in Lévis, Quebec, which lost out. Irving’s [...]
Enjoy this song and video by local musician Michael Hermiston, and perhaps relive something from your own childhood….
