Summerside Scene
by Peggy Miles

Independent cinema is coming to Summerside. A group of local film enthusiasts have formed a collective that will bring Canadian and international films to Summerside’s big screen. The volunteers are liaising with Film Circuit, an outreach division of TIFF (the Toronto International Film Festival). The division interacts with community groups, assisting them in showcasing f

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The Other Notebook
by David Helwig

Not a large room, this gallery, but the four walls illustrate a lifetime of painting in oil, many of the pieces brilliant miniatures, small enough to fit in the lid of a paint box, here framed and displayed in a double row, every few feet a larger painting derived from an oil sketch hung between them.

I am standing in the J.W. Morrice room of the Ken Thomson collection

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One Great Thing
by Ann Thurlow

Awesome simplicity is, as jazzman Charles Mingus pointed out, a pretty difficult thing to achieve. So here is songwriter Jordan Cameron’s take on the Halifax explosion—“Oh my God.” The phrase repeats again and again and again in his chorus. It gives voice, as no other words can, to the wallop and the horror of that terrible day. So many books written, so many speeches, so many

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Profile: Patti Larsen

by Jane Ledwell

Patti Larsen hears voices—and they tell her to write books. When she sold her successful salon business to become a full-time writer, Patti not only remade her life and career—she placed herself on the forefront of remaking the publishing industry, as an independent writer and publisher. From her PEI home, Patti has 23 books on the market and dozens more to come to

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One Great Thing
by Ann Thurlow

How strange is it to sit just outside the floodlights in the dark, watching theatre in Kings Square? Strange enough that a passing minivan veers into the other lane on Weymouth, turns the wrong way down Kent. Instead of gawking, they should have stopped. They could have let the tricks of night and shadow run riot. They could have sat, entranced, as young Fringe Festival

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St. Mary’s Hall in Summerside open on Saturdays and Sundays

Summerside Scene
by Peggy Miles

Summerside has a new venue for the community’s creative sector to showcase its handiwork. Known as the Artisan Market, it takes place every Saturday and Sunday afternoon from 1–4 pm at St. Mary’s Hall in Summerside.

The Summer Street hall is known to locals as the setting for children’s dance lessons, an Election D

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The Cove Journal
by JoDee Samuelson

Did you ever see such a summer for apples? They’re everywhere, on the ground, floating down streams, and more importantly, in our pies and applesauce. How did the trees find enough water this summer to make apples, let alone make them delicious? On a similar topic, how did the cucumbers get so juicy when their roots are such little bits of things?

There was no cucumber

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Tony Gallant photographs the remains of bygone days

In Her Own Write
by Ann Thurlow

There is a strange grace to decay. An abandoned house loses its battle with age in a thousand tiny sighs; its roof sags, its beams give way. When Tony Gallant inherited his parent’s property—his own home place—he was struck by a need to record its beauty in its last years.

He also felt the need to document the place—so

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Country Prose
by Charlie Hansen

Summer is slowly creeping over the hill and the cool winds of fall are evident in the air these last few days. This means the bluegrass festival season is over for this year. But wait—there’s one more yet to come.

The Laurie and Bernice Blue Memorial Bluegrass Festival will take place on November 1, 2, 3, & 4 at the Causeway Bay Linkletter Inn and Convention Center

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I’m Dining Out Here
by Andrew Sprague

There aren’t many couples on the Island with as much experience in the restaurant business as Hooie Larter and Ian MacIsaac. MacIsaac was a chef for years at Sirenella Ristorante in Charlottetown, not to mention stints at the Claddagh Room and Off Broadway. Larter has worked all over the place including the Merchantman Pub, the Island Rock Cafe in its heyday, and C

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