ARTS CULTURE COMMUNITY June 15 – 29, 2017 Issue No. 14.09 5000 copies Happy Father's Day! SARAH PITTOELLO'S JENNY OSBURN'S WAYFARERS 20 WAYS TO FARMERS' MARKET DO IT YOURSELF WELCOME GET OUTSIDE JOURNEY PIZZA FOR DAD IN PORT WILLIAMS THIS SUMMER P. 7 P. 8 P. 10 P. 11 June 15 – 29, 2017 | 1 2 | June 15 – 29, 2017 NS PUBLIC LIBRARIES CELEBRATE THE NATION’S ANNIVERSARY WITH 150 BOOKS OF INFLUENCE Laura Emery, Chief Librarian and CEO, Eastern Counties Regional Library In honour of the 150th Anniversary of Confederation, the Nova Scotia Library Association (NSLA) and Nova Scotia’s 9 Regional Public Library systems are excited to present Libraries 150, a province-wide library project celebrating Nova Scotia’s writers and citizens, ideas and attitudes, culture and environment, and stories and treasures. The cornerstone of Libraries 150 will be the compilation of 150 Books of Influence, a commemorative list of 150 books that Nova Scotians believe have influenced or defined them as a people. The titles on the list will be those books that have captured Nova Scotians’ hearts and minds; books that tell Nova Scotia’s stories and inspire its citizens. “Canada’s 150th Anniversary is a perfect opportunity to examine and consider those books which reflect our current state as a people and province, as well as books that mark our progress over the decades since Confederation,” says NSLA President Cynthia Lelliott. “This project will memorialize the literary works of Nova Scotia, and leave a cultural legacy for future generations of readers that will be forever accessible to the public.” This sesquicentennial project is made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Nova Scotia Department of Communities Culture and Heritage’s 150 Forward Fund, and cooperation throughout Nova Scotia’s library commu- nity. One Book Nova Scotia, and the Atlantic Provinces Library Association have agreed to partner with NSLA on the project. From late May into the summer of 2017, Nova Scotians – including the province’s 320,000 library patrons – will be asked to nominate books for the 150 Books of Influence. The nominat- ed books can include children, youth, and adult titles; fiction and non-fiction; scholarly texts; books of diversity; books in French, Gaelic, Mi’kmaq, and/or English; and current and historical titles. Nominations will be compiled and reviewed, and the 150 books will be selected by a committee of Library personnel from across the province. The booklist will be announced at the "Word On the Street Festival" in September 2017 and available thereafter to the public at their local Library. Everyone is encouraged and invited to visit 150booksns.ca and nominate a Nova Scotia book that matters to them. Or Nova Scotians can find out more about Libraries 150 activities by visiting their local Public Library. TOO MUCH TMZ GREEN BLUE AND THE MOON everyone somewhere you wants to be complicated green haven’t been don’t they blue and the Moon get yourself we all into a country want to makes herself you’ve never seen entertain so unmistakable some level where you don’t of mystery there’s know the language no room for you. it’s where you create currency almost J.G.Lutes with hand gestures an addiction you’ll see we’ve been watching (Poetry by this issue's too much tv Who Who. except for the real crazy Read about him ones too much TMZ on page 9) we’re all the same. too much attention to the TMZ bus J.G.Lutes just take a flight June 15 – 29, 2017 | 3 Free Classifieds/Eat to the Beat ................................ p.3 A Dark Secret Unearthed The Dome Chronicles ................................................. p.4 THE DOME CHRONICLES: Garry Leeson Eat to the Beat/Classifieds......................................... p.5 INDEX Mystery Quote .......................................................... p.5 In 1972, a boxcar from Toronto containing his line of business might encounter and was a menagerie of farm animals and an eager anxious to vent his anxiety. “Do you know Margaret Drummond's Star Drop/Free Will Astrology ................................... p.6 young couple pulled into the station platform in that as a cost-saving measure hundreds of Locavore/Recipe ....................................................... p.8 Kingston, Nova Scotia. They were bound for a households in the area do not have conven- WORD OF THE ISSUE: deserted hundred-acre farm on the South Moun- tional septic tanks installed?” he asked. I Who's Who ................................................................ p.9 tain, determined to preserve the foundations of did not, so he proffered a further question, Wild Eats ................................................................... p.9 farmsteads past while constructing a geodesic “Do you know what people have been using Aestival Wayfarers' Ale Society ....... ....................................... p.9 dome. They were pioneers of the future, armed instead of regular septic tanks?” Seeing I was Adjective with respect for tradition and an irrepressible still baffled, he continued. “Cars!” he blurted, What's Happening/Tides ........................................... p.12–14 sense of humour. They didn’t call themselves “They use old cars as septic tanks. They bury Belonging to or appearing in summer. Weekly Events ........................................................... p.13 farmers. They were back-to-the-landers. Farming them in the ground behind their houses.” was industry and their calling was sustainability. "The riverbluff is festooned with an @ The Library ........................................................... p.14 Over the next forty years, through flood and fire, “I presume they close the windows before they annual aestival assemblage of wild iris, Acadia Page .............................................................. p.15 triumph and catastrophe, they persevered, unwit- intern them.” I quipped. yarrow, and evening primrose." tingly sowing the seeds for the modern small- farm movement. He was not amused but continued, “A lot of careful thinking went into deciding what kind Maritimers are known for their ingenuity and of car to use. A single-person household might resourcefulness so I shouldn’t have been sur- only require a vehicle the size of a derelict prised by the information that a local trades- Volkswagen Bug or an Austin Mini, a two man, who was in the know, shared with me. person situation probably would opt for a two The sensitive nature of the subject probably door coupe, while a large family would require accounts for the reason why it had remained a good sized four door sedan or even a small such a well-kept secret for so many years. delivery van. It doesn’t matter to me. I charge them all the same.” In 1973 I was busy building a special cement septic tank that I was adapting to collect “So what’s the problem?” I asked, “What’s got BROUGHT TO YOU BY AN AMAZING TEAM OF CONTRIBUTORS: methane gas to use in our dome. The back-to- you so upset?” the-land community was all abuzz with the EMILY LEESON JOCELYN HATT ZOE D’AMATO DONNA HOLMES Gobar gas initiative. “I don’t care what the hell they use for septic Editor Sales Copy Editor Art Director, Design, Layout tanks,” he moaned. “They’re out of sight and GENEVIEVE ALLEN HEARN MONICA JORGENSEN ALEX HICKEY, & DAVID EDELSTEIN EMILY KATHAN I had asked Bill Smith, a local man who none of my business. I just plug my big hose Operations Manager Design, Typesetting, Layout Distribution Manager Events & Lists operated the pumper truck that was known in and slurp them out then go about my CONTRIBUTORS: Mike Butler, Genevieve Allen Hearn, Scott Camp- DELIVERIES: Margot Bishop, Dominic Cameron, Jacob Rhude, affectionately as the Honey Wagon, to have business. But it just isn’t right. God knows I bell, Donna Holmes, Garry Leeson, Avery Peters, Laura Churchill Lauren Galbraith, Earle & Karen Illsley, Miklos Kanyasi, Andrea a look at what I was doing and proffer any always try to be fair with everybody. I always Duke, Melanie Priesnitz, Thomas Clahane, Regan Alford, Susan Leeson, John Morrison, Julie and Mugen Page, Curran Rodg- advice he might have. He was obliging but, as charge a standard fee per visit. They’re always Wedlock, Margaret Drummond, Lee-Ann Cudmore, Sarah ers, Lorna Williamson, Lyal Wooster, Bryden MacDonald, Aidrie Anderson, Angela Reynolds, Allan Williams (Eat to the Beat) Cameron, Ryland Cameron, Riley White we conversed, he seemed somewhat distracted slightly different. Legal tanks are a specific and uneasy; not his usual chatty self. When volume but others vary and I don’t show I asked what was bothering him he launched favourites.” into a lengthy preamble. 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He expects to pay the standard rate but CONTENT SUBMISSIONS: [email protected] DOUBLE BLOCK $84 - $117 sewage drainage pipes toward a handy creek I’ve already made three separate trips up to CONTACT EVENTS/CLASSIFIEDS: [email protected] FOUR BLOCK $160 - $226 or river. For those homesteads located on flat his place today.” dry land away from natural drainage the only HALF PAGE $339 - $495 SNAIL MAIL: Grapevine Publishing ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE: grapevinepublishing.ca option was to install a cesspool. Quite often “How so?” I inquired.