Meeting the challenge of building new in Olde Charlottetown

In Her Own Write
by Ann Thurlow

I once got to see downtown Charlottetown from high up above. It was instructive, and highly recommended for anyone who cares about preserving the City’s heritage. Whether by accident or design, Charlottetown has been able to hold onto a substantial number of its older buildings and its unique streetscapes, giving i

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The Story of Your Food

by Nina Linton

Donna Clark is on call 24/7. Some nights she gets no sleep, working around the clock helping mothers deliver healthy little ones. She lingers by their sides for as long as it takes—some minutes, others hours—ready to jump in and help during the most difficult and intense births.

With two grown children of her own, Clark’s mothering instinct remains strong. She’s d

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by Ann Thurlow

The Jubilee Cookbook
Ladies Aid Society of the First Methodist Church

A good cookbook can take you right into the heart of a cuisine. It can make you a star to your dinner party guests; it can teach you about flavours and technique. But if you want to understand the heart and soul of a society, there is nothing better than a community cookbook. They’re the projects of the Home and School, t

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Profile: Gordon Belsher

by Jane Ledwell

The carpet on the wall is a dead giveaway: I’m in a recording studio. True to its name, Gordon Belsher’s Guernsey Cove Parlour Productions studio is in a parlour room in beautiful, Guernsey Cove, PEI. Gordon first started recording there in 1991, beginning with his own group, Jar O’Comfort, which also included his wife Charlene. Since then, it would be hard to na

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Harbourfront Players on stage to benefit Prince County Hospital

Summerside Scene
by Peggy Miles

A most revealing performance graces the stage at the Harbourfront Theatre as the Harbourfront Players presents Calendar Girls.

Made popular by the 2003 movie and based on a true story, Calendar Girls chronicles the lives of a group of middle aged English women who pose nude for their annual Women’s Institute f

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Launch of Prince Edward Island Legislative Documents Online

by Sean McQuaid

Over the course of decades upon decades of political action in this Island’s history, stretching back to centuries past, events and activities that occurred in our Legislature have been recorded for posterity in the Clerk’s Journals of the P.E.I. Legislative Assembly.

Handy things those Clerk’s Journals, each one summarizing t

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One Great Thing
by Ann Thurlow

A pastry chef should be a person with a delicate touch and graceful movements. Also cold hands—I hear pastry is best made by the cool-handed. Tom Hayward was none of those things. Yet, when I was feeling skinny or rich, I would buy some of Tom’s wonderful pastries at the Market. The butter tarts were best—savoury and toothsome and sweet. And the pastry? Unique—a little flaky,

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I’m Dining Out Here
by Andrew Sprague

When I first saw the Orange Lunchbox it sat in the parking lot of a long since abandoned heavy machinery business on University Avenue in Charlottetown. At the time I mistook it for a run-of-the-mill mobile lunch counter and barely gave it a second thought. It wasn’t long before I started hearing reviews about the tasty food being offered at the orange trailer a

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Claudia Perez and Claudia Rosas cook for La Sazon de Mexico

by Ann Thurlow

Claudia Perez plops a bag of corn flour down on her kitchen table. “Oh,” I say. “I’ve seen that. I used it to make arepas.” “No,”: she says, pulling out a different kind of flour. “You used this. The other one is special for tamales.”

And there, in a nutshell, are a couple of the problems with trying to sell authentic Mexican

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In Her Own Write
by Ann Thurlow

Unless we’re talking toques or balaclavas, a hat is kind of a magic thing. No one, it could be argued, needs to wear a fascinator. And yet, pinning a lovely, feathery concoction to your hair does something wonderful for your soul.

For the past five years hat maker Alisha Stephen has been making that kind of magic. Under her own label, Love Charlie, she has created hundreds

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