CBC Gem has recently uploaded several seasons of its TV interview show called “At the Table.”
I was the guest for one of those sessions, interviewed by Amy Smith. My segment is Season 3, Episode 8. The conversation is about 22 minutes long and it is all about Louisbourg. I was invited on the show because I had recently been made a chevalier of France’s Ordre des Palmes académiques. I am wearing the ribbon of that honour during the interview.
I thoroughly enjoyed speaking about The Lincolns — the legendary 1960s Nova Scotia band — at the Colchester Historeum in Truro, NS. That was the band’s home town. It was especially meaningful to have Rod Norrie in attendance. Rod was the original Lincolns drummer.
I am grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts, through the Writers’ Union of Canada, for supporting the presentation.
I will be at the Colchester Historeum in Truro, NS, at 12 noon on September 11 to give an illustrated talk.
I am grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts, through the Writers’ Union of Canada, for funding my travel expenses. @CanadaCouncil #BringingTheArtsTo Life
Here is a link to a short video put together by Shannon Nickerson of the NS Acadian newspaper, Le Courrier de la Nouvelle-Ecosse. I am the third interview. The literary event was August 11. On August 13 I will be giving a different presentation in Yarmouth at 12:30 pm at the Lions Club. It’s all part of the Congrès mondial des Acadiens.
I am delighted to be part of a special event taking place in West Pubnico, NS, on August 11.
It will be a bilingual affair, with lots of authors in attendance.
The details are on these two posters.
I received a message recently from Anne O’Neill. She was a longtime colleague back when we both worked at the Fortress of Louisbourg. (We were also the duo who toured Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip around the Fortress on their 1994 visit.)
Anne let me know that one of my book titles had showed up as the answer in a crossword puzzle of the Halifax Chronicle Herald. What?
Sure enough. Check out clue 39 below. By the way, the answer the clue is looking for is “Heart of Acadie.”
