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| Heart's Content Graveyard |
My name is Terra Barrett and I have worked with the Heritage Foundation for the last two summers. I am back again working with the Intangible Cultural Heritage Office on a new project called
Collective Memories. Stay tuned for more information about this project in the coming weeks as I will be updated the blog with updates about the work of the ICH Office over the summer.
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| Dale, Andrea, and Michael in the graveyard |
This past weekend Dale Jarvis, Andrea O’Brien, Michael Philpott, and I headed out of St. John’s for a heritage road trip with stops in Heart’s Content and New Perlican. Our first stop on Friday afternoon was the Heart’s Content graveyard where the community is looking to do some work. We had a look at the graves and the state of the grounds and discussed the possibilities of a clean up or workshop in the graveyard. After reviewing the graveyard we had a supper of hot turkey sandwiches, fish, chips, and milkshakes at Legge’s and headed on to New Perlican.
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| Community members at the People, Places, and Traditions workshop. |
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| Important places in the community. |
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| Mapping their heritage. |
New Perlican’s heritage committee asked the Heritage Foundation to come out and help the committee prioritize their community heritage to do list. On Friday evening we hosted a People, Places, and Traditions workshop in order to get the people of the community thinking about the assets in their community. We had three tables set up with large maps of New Perlican and had each table focus on either the people, places, or tradition in the community.
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| People in the community. |
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| Important traditions. |
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| Reviewing the maps. |
Everyone contributed ideas and wrote out their descriptions on recipe card which were then placed on the large maps. In the end we ended up with three community maps one with the important people in the community such as past lighthouse keepers and bread bakers, one with places like the
sitting rock and local swimming holes, and one with traditional nicknames in the community and the tradition of using goats to haul wood from the woods. We placed these maps around the room and had a discussion of what had been identified.
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| Brainstorming. |
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| Prioritizing. |
Saturday we were back in New Perlican for a prioritizing session with the community's heritage committee. We whittled their wish list from twenty odd items to three major project to focus on over the next few years. After lunch we walked through the harbour in order to see where most of their work was focused. It was a productive weekend and I am looking forward to seeing where the committee takes their projects over the next few years.
~Terra
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| Walk to the New Perlican Harbour. |
Do you want a People, Places, and Traditions Workshop in your community? Or want some advice on where to go next? We’d love to help! Contact the Intangible Culture Heritage office of the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador for more ideas or assistance.
1-888-739-1892
~Terra Barrett
2 comments:
Very interesting!!!! It is great that communities can get this kind of help and direction on how to maintain their hertiage
I echo the previous writer's sentiment. It looks like a new beginning of projects. Fresh eyes produce fresh ideas, and this seems no exception. And, it warms my heart to see there are so many people who are striving to maintain links to our long heritage in my hometown of New Perlican. Thank you, and continued success in your efforts.
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