Lee has uploaded to a PICASA Web Album an edited selection of 180 (!) digital images from our three week journey "onward into the past."
Highlights of the trip include all the information we picked up along the way about Heidi's family history, not only the documentation uncovered but also "the sense of place" developed as a result of visiting so many of the locations that, until now, have existed only as place names. We also now know her ancestors on the Crosby, the Bent and even the Durkee side were "Planters," a term we'd not known before this trip.
Nova Scotia itself proved quiet, laid back, friendly and replete with comfortable accommodations and enticing food -- a refuge in many ways from "the cares of the world." Aside from the tourist crowds at Peggy Cove, the ubiquitous Tim Horton franchises and the retail shopping strip outside Kentville, the entire province seemed remarkably free of the twenty-first-century global commercialism which repeats itself in location after location elsewhere around the world.
The coastal scenery everywhere proved a photographer's dream and soothing to the senses as well -- human interactions with the surrounding environment came across as less exploitative and much more sustainable than usually experienced in other parts of the contemporary world. The brightly colored fishing boats bobbing in harbor after harbor (or marooned on the tidal plane) and the gaily colored houses dotting the countryside all seemed very much "at home", peaceful and content.
Annapolis Royal and Lunenburg were especially delightful. The Habitation, the high tech media presentation on the Acadians and the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic proved both informative and entertaining, adding to our appreciation of the area's history and culture.
If the drive weren't so time consuming and far distant, no doubt we'd become regular visitors. Next time, however, we'll fly to Halifax instead ...
Highlights of the trip include all the information we picked up along the way about Heidi's family history, not only the documentation uncovered but also "the sense of place" developed as a result of visiting so many of the locations that, until now, have existed only as place names. We also now know her ancestors on the Crosby, the Bent and even the Durkee side were "Planters," a term we'd not known before this trip.
Nova Scotia itself proved quiet, laid back, friendly and replete with comfortable accommodations and enticing food -- a refuge in many ways from "the cares of the world." Aside from the tourist crowds at Peggy Cove, the ubiquitous Tim Horton franchises and the retail shopping strip outside Kentville, the entire province seemed remarkably free of the twenty-first-century global commercialism which repeats itself in location after location elsewhere around the world.
The coastal scenery everywhere proved a photographer's dream and soothing to the senses as well -- human interactions with the surrounding environment came across as less exploitative and much more sustainable than usually experienced in other parts of the contemporary world. The brightly colored fishing boats bobbing in harbor after harbor (or marooned on the tidal plane) and the gaily colored houses dotting the countryside all seemed very much "at home", peaceful and content.
Annapolis Royal and Lunenburg were especially delightful. The Habitation, the high tech media presentation on the Acadians and the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic proved both informative and entertaining, adding to our appreciation of the area's history and culture.
If the drive weren't so time consuming and far distant, no doubt we'd become regular visitors. Next time, however, we'll fly to Halifax instead ...
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