Profile: Daphne Large

by Jane Ledwell

The area once known as “Clifton Corner” once was a “bustling village” with a two-storey general store where you could buy everything from beans to furniture. The village continued to bustle as, years later, the original Presbyterian manse became a new general store run by Kitty Cotton, who was also postmistress. “The store was where people would gather on Saturday night—mai

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One Great Thing
by Ann Thurlow

My lip finds the small chip in the rim; I trace it with my tongue. A familiar ritual, the same every morning. I cannot face the day without coffee and I cannot have it any other way but in this cup. Someone made it—someone thought about how the thin, elegant neck would fit so easily into a hand, how the sturdy base would keep the coffee warm. Someone’s thumb must have mad

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Mike Carver keeps busy as a player, producer and promoter

MoeTown
by Moe

Mike Carver seems to be a man of half a million hats. He’s in: Milks & Rectangles (although, they’re on hiatus while Christian is in England, working together mostly via e-mail); The drummer for North Lakes, who will be going to NxNE and also S.C.E.N.E Festival in St. Catherines; Fox & the Hound with Emilee Sorrey (which is

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Garnet Schellen and his herd of Ayrshires

The Story of Your Food
by Nina Linton

It’s 5:15 am. Garnet Schellen’s hand fumbles into the murky darkness, silencing the alarm clock’s shrills with a slap. He slides out of bed and into his work clothes—a well-worn set of navy coveralls—before easing out the back door and down a path carved by decades of hurried footsteps.

All’s quiet except for a faint wind w

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Creating a new musical

by Sean McQuaid

Success has many fathers. For me, that old saying evokes Anne of Green Gables – the Musical where nearly the entire population of Avonlea takes credit for Anne’s accomplishments. The same adage applies less debatably to Anne’s long-gestating stage sister Evangeline, in which an interprovincial extended family of theatre professionals are helping give birth to one o

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Notes from the Road
by Catherine MacLellan

Back in 1998, I was home from a year in Australia and trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I had studied one semester at Dalhousie but I wasn’t even sure why I was there, so I came back to PEI. I made a few friends who persuaded me to sneak into Baba’s every week (I was only 18) for open mic or to see Rhythm Rules every Thursday night with Jon

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I’m Dining Out Here
by Andrew Sprague

There has never been a better local food promotion than Burger Love. No promotion has ever seen the level of public engagement and participant payoff enjoyed by Burger Love. Several restaurants were reporting over a thousand burgers sold in the first twelve days of the month long event. That’s almost a hundred burgers a day. Social media channels were inundated w

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A couple of stories about Robert Pendergast

by Ann Thurlow

When he started culinary school his instructor asked the students why they were there. Robert’s answer? “To learn better ways to cook potatoes and mackerel.” He was being cheeky—but only a little bit.

He also likes to tell the story of a famous baker in France (a baker whose bread has been favorably compared to Robert’s). It’s a long story—but the

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Country Prose
by Charlie Hansen

Well we finally ended our winter stay in Florida and arrived home to less than friendly weather. I have no idea why we expect better but we always do.

The last musical event that we attended was the Sertoma Youth Ranch spring festival. This festival isn’t their best festival of the year but we were pleasantly surprised by the lineup that they had.

We went up on Friday

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The Cove Journal
by JoDee Samuelson

We had coffee down at the Cove this morning, and guess what: the Iceberg’s still there. It never left. I suppose it read The Buzz last month and decided that it would never get this much attention again, so why not stay. I understand that it plans to camp here all summer. My apologies for suggesting otherwise.

Today on our morning walk we observed that, right on

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