Working Waterfront

Sydney Lea deals with demons

George does most of the narrating, but Lea lets other characters take a chapter here and there to add perspective on the story. Among the most striking: the soliloquy of the man who murdered his parents and a short letter written from Vietnam by his friends Evan and Mattie’s son Tommy. SEE MORE

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Historical novel unveils Native life

The Berry Pickers By Amanda Peters (Catapault, 2023) Amanda Peters has Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry and lives in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. She was winner in 2021 of an Indigenous Voices Award. The Berry Pickers was her first published book (2023), with a book of short stories just… SEE MORE

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A home for all

I had the opportunity recently to join a 20th anniversary celebration of North Haven Sustainable Housing (NHSH), one of the leading models of housing solutions along the coast. Since 2005, NHSH has demonstrated that the people who make island communities thrive can, in fact, have beautiful homes that are affordable… SEE MORE