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Roots & Folks

Chocolate and Chicken Bones

  • By Gail MacMillan
  • Header photo by Belle DeMont
Remembrances of Christmas past, and hope for Christmas future

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Sliding into a new path

  • By Janet Whitman
Canoe maker turns to creating “winter canoes” to keep busy

Quilting the Past

  • By Quentin Casey
  • Photography By Larry Goldstein
In the summer of 2000, Nova Scotia artist Laurie Swim returned to her hometown of Lockeport, a fishing town located along the province’s south shore. Swim, a...

The Power of song

  • By Troy Greencorn
Reflections on 25 years of Stanfest adventures

The Unseen Louisbourg

  • By Rannie Gillis
  • Photography By Rannie Gillis
  • Header photo by F Stephen
How do you feed 4,000 men who have just been put ashore in a wilderness area, in a strange country? Where will you get the many pounds of beef that will be...

Tales from the ice pack

  • By Bob Wakeham
A veteran journalist looks back at the tumult of sealing in the 1970s

Mettle, metal and a medal

  • By Sara Jewell
  • Photography By bruce murry/visionfire
A veteran is honoured for fighting in France

  • By Jodi DeLong
  • Photography By Jodi Delong
Growing quality berries for his customers is in this farmer’s DNA

  • By Bill Coulatas
A young Newfoundland sculptor is winning fame and hearts with his work

  • By Scott Leslie
  • Photography By Scott Leslie
The magic of watching a family of loons on a Cape Breton Lake

  • By Maureen Tilley, PDt. Registered Dietitian & Author
Don’t know the difference between Greek and regular yogurt? We have answers

  • By Darcy Rhyno
  • Photography By Jackson Productions Inc.
  • Header photo by Unsplash/Viktor Forgacs
DEBBIE BREKELMANS lives for flying. As a pilot for Maritime Air, the company her husband and a friend started in 1996, she flies the only commercial charter...

  • By Alec Bruce
The namesake of a Martian crater? A magnet for international workers? A marvellous way with words? Why wouldn’t you move to Tignish?

  • By Bob Bancroft
  • Photography By Alice Reed
An abundance of compromise

  • By Gerald “Honey” McKinnon, as told to Philip Moscovitch
  • Photography By Gorden Photographic Ltd.
  • Header photo by Honey McKinnon
I first meet Honey McKinnon at the Jerry Marsh baseball field in New Waterford. It’s a sunny August weekend, and I’m here to watch my son’s team play. Honey...

  • By Darcy Rhyno
Getting to know Elizabeth Sutherland

  • By Jim Gourlay
Scams are ever-growing