(Other) Election Time
By accident of birth, I am an American citizen (because of parentage I’m also a Canadian), and as such I can vote by absentee ballot in U.S. elections. The oddest thing about this process (other than...
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The Prince Edward Island Calendar
Spotted in an 1847 issue of the Royal Gazette for Prince Edward Island:
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Business Cards
Nigel Roe was generous enough to let me back into his type cabinet at Holland College this week. It’s a challenging collection of type to wade through, having been exposed to the exigencies of students...
View ArticleTaylor's Taters back November 6
Garth Taylor, who runs Taylor’s Taters at the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market, has been pretending to retire for several years now, and this year is no exception: true to tradition, he’ll be back at the...
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Prince Edward Island Revenue and Expenditure, 1864
From the 1866 Prince Edward Island Calendar:
View ArticleHow to Make a Tetra Pak Wallet
From Upcycle.it, a European group concerned with the “process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value”:
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Annals of Minor Crime
Middle of the night, a horrible crash rumbles through the house. I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter: Oliver (okay), furnace (okay), back windows (okay). Looked out the peep-hole in the...
View ArticleEvery time is a time of great change: 42 years after Hall-Dennis
From 2010 in Prince Edward Island, the Proceedings of the Minister’s Summit on Learning: There was a clear and widespread understanding among participants that the traditional learning model requires...
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Gong Bao Thursday
Almost every Thursday for the last 7 years me of Reinvented has joined they of silverorange, plus occasional special guest stars, at Interlude for a meal that’s come to be known as Gong Bao Thursday....
View ArticleWe Go Out Walking
Back in the spring Oliver and I started going out for a walk after supper every night. In the beginning it was an entirely practical thing: I was taking some time off going to the gym, and needed a way...
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To the Wayzgoose
Early on in the game of focusing my eyes on all-things-letterpress I came across news of the annual Wayzgoose in Kentville, Nova Scotia at Gaspereau Press. A wayzgoose is a sort of open house cum...
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Have you ever tried to stick a rubber glove into a photocopier?
Full of vig and vigour after Saturday’s trip to the Wayzgoose, and with a newly-cast piece of type, fresh from the Gaspereau Ludlow type-casting machine, burning a lead hole in my pocket, I resolved to...
View ArticleTeens discover Seoul Food
Anyone with a basic knowledge of Charlottetown geography knows that Colonel Gray High School is mere steps away from the strip of University Avenue that’s home to all manner of restaurants, mostly fast...
View ArticleNotes from the Classroom
It was parent-teacher interview day here in Prince Edward Island today: a holiday for students, an appointment for parents. We’re blessed that Oliver, for the fourth year in a row, has a smart,...
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Annals of Modern Media
From his Just chillin!-style tweets, I assume that Hon. Doug Currie, Prince Edward Island’s Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, manages his own Twitter. Which makes tweets like this...
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Robert Wade’s Almanac
Earlier this month I learned that for many years here in Prince Edward Island an annual local almanac, the Prince Edward Island Calendar, was published. As someone with a long-established interest in...
View ArticleNew Charlottetown Tea House
There’s a new tea house, opening today, at 59 Grafton Street in downtown Charlottetown, in the space formerly occupied by Pinky’s Place and, originally, by the Prince Edward Theatre. Oliver and I stuck...
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Downtown Social Club
After supper tonight Catherine and Oliver and I headed to the new tea house on Grafton Street to see what it was all about. It’s in the large space recently vacated by Pinky’s Place, across from The...
View ArticleMunicipal Election Results
It’s municipal election day in Charlottetown, Summerside, Stratford and Cornwall today, and starting after 7:00 p.m. when the polls close you’ll be able to get live election results updates from...
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中国城
There’s an increasing opportunity for the curious among us to learn about the Chinese language as the number of newcomers to Charlottetown from Taiwan and China increases every day. I’m used to...
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