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...mean we’re traveling cities all the time. It’s hard to see nothingness in life. I mean I spent some time in the fall and I used to live in cape Breton in a tiny little part of Canada, northern Nova Scotia. Lived there for a couple of winters and there’s a whole lot of nothingness there. (Pause)Landscape over structure. Rather than a building, we’re talking about the landscape. So there’s no vocals, there’s no solos-THC: The sonicscape...
Ring in the holidays with memories of a crackling, warm fire...that burned the Canadian city of Halifax to the ground. In 1917, friendly Bostonians aided our neighbor to the north with that pesky blaze, and since then, the kindly folks of Nova Scotia donate the Christmas tree at Boston Common. Come for the lighting, stay for the embarrassment of Canadians everywhere...
From plantations in the South, to refuge in British-held Nova Scotia after the war, and finally over to the newly-created territory of Sierra Leone on the African coast, these slaves had navigated not only a formidable distance, but also the tangled web of race politics in the 18th-century Atlantic world...
...second half of Schama's powerful book follows the former slaves in their wretched exile after the war, when thousands joined an exodus of white loyalists to Nova Scotia. Others shipped out to Africa to establish a struggling township in Sierra Leone. Although the African settlers suffered years of illness and near starvation, they were the first largely self-governing community of African Americans. If it wasn't quite "British freedom," it was still a taste of the liberty the U.S. would not offer blacks for many years to come...
According to Warren, he and Kapral have scheduled a rematch for the Scotia Bank Toronto Waterfront Marathon in September...