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Remembering Laurie Murison

  A CBC interview about Laurie Murison

An Interpretive Dance Performance

with Ara Fitzgerald

Back by popular demand, Ara will perform a series of dance/theatre solos she both wrote and choreographed.

With Never Before Seen Stories in Motion from:

The Invisible Circus of the Present

& Peter Cunningham With a New Film

(Admission - $15 at the door)

Canada and the

US Civil War

with Ned & Diane Smith

This talk by Civil War historians and part-time residents Diane and Ned Smith will look at the involvement of soldiers, blockade runners, the Chesapeake Affair, and more.  Diane and Ned have written six Civil War-related books between them.  The most recent, Diane’s fourth book, Washington Roebling’s Civil War, was published in the summer of 2019.  Ned his currently finishing his third book, a history of the last two Union regiments raised in Maine.  (Admission by Donation)

Hunting for Herring:  An Evening of Celebration of Fishery Traditions on Grand Manan and Beyond

with Alison Hawthorne Deming

“The potato of the Middle Ages,” “the silver darlings,” “the silver of the seas,” —these are a few of the nicknames for herring, one of the most abundant fishes in the sea. Deming's talk will address the importance of herring to Grand Manan and throughout the history of the world. She will have aerial images of what remains of the early "stone weirs" and of recently operating weirs in celebration of this unique local fishery. 

(Admission by Donation)

Book Launch:  A Woven World:  On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress

Dr. Alison Hawthorne Deming, Creative Writing, Univ. of Arizona

Alison will read from her latest book which has already garnered several excellent reviews.  The book will be for sale after her talk.  Alison’s books include Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit and the poetry collection Stairway to Heaven. https://alisonhawthornedeming.com/books/prose/a-woven-world/  (Admission by Donation)

Lighthouse Days

With Chris Mills, Canadian Coastguard

Join Chris as he takes a look back at lightkeeping in the 1990s, and as he explores Canada's lighthouse legacy, with a special look at Grand Manan’s Gannet Rock Lighthouse.  (Admission by Donation)

Disappearing Before Our Eyes:

Stories From Grand Manan

With Peter Cunningham, Photographer and Author

Peter will read from his photography book, “Disappearing Before Our Eyes”, while displaying photographic diptychs from the book taken over many years:  “This book bears witness to an ongoing struggle to maintain self-reliant island individualism in the context of a nearly ubiquitous global economy.  Things are changing but the water is still cold, salty and wet.”

Donations:  Any amount $30+ makes you eligible!

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E-transfer to gm.museum.fin@gmail.com (Please also send an email to mjewards454@gmail.com, providing your email address or a phone #, and indicating the membership category or saying “Just a donation”.)

Ticket Sales:  Grand Manan Museum (when open)

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Please also send an email to mjewards454@gmail.com, providing your email address or a phone #, and indicating how many tickets you bought, and for which raffle.

Draw Date: September 24, 2021

Ticket Sales:  Grand Manan Museum (when open)

• PayPal at www.grandmananmuseum.ca

• E-transfer to gm.museum.fin@gmail.com

Please also send an email to mjewards454@gmail.com, providing your email address or a phone #, and indicating how many tickets you bought, and for which raffle.

Draw Date: September 24, 2021

Make sure you visit the grounds behind the museum.