Showing posts with label clarenville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clarenville. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Heritage Update: Grants, Conferences, & Red Cliff and Random Head Memories
In Heritage Update Number 070 for March-April 2017: we introduce some changes to our Designation and Grant Programs; share memories from the former Red Cliff Base; announce the grant deadline for the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Program 2017; meet the Coopers, the lighthouse family of Random Head in a special article from the Clarenville Heritage Society; and ask you to save the date for the "Adapting our Heritage Conference" in St. John’s, October 25 – 28, 2017. We also take a trip to look at the archival material of Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s, seek your help with our survey of historical churches, and announce the Greenspond Courthouse Call for Expressions of Interest!
Contributors: Lucy Alway, Terra Barrett, Stephen Bonnell, Jerry Dick, and Kelly Drover.
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photo: "Home Sweet Home" - The Lighthouse - Random Head. Courtesy Clarenville Heritage Society.
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Heritage Week: Clarenville Oral History Collection
Interviewers Megan Vardy, Stephen Bonnell, and Sam Adey |
To listen to these interviews, visit the Memorial University of Newfoundland Digital Archives Initiative.
~ Kelly
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
#CollectiveMemories Roadtrip: Clarenville Heritage Society
I'm in Clarenville today, meeting with the Clarenville Heritage Society about setting up a Collective Memories project. Above are three of the people I met with today, Megan Vardy, Stephen Bonnell, and Sam Adey.
We had a good conversation about the work they are doing to preserve the history of Clarenville and surrounding area, and where they might fit in to our new Collective Memories project. After our preliminary discussions, I think we'll be assisting them with two small pilot projects: we'll be helping them sort out the metadata and descriptions for their existing oral history collection and adding it to Memorial University's Digital Archives Initiative; and we'll return soon to help them with some new oral history interviews, specifically on the railway history of Clarenville and area.
You can check out some of the interviews they've done in the past here.
We'll post more on the project as it chugs on down the track!
The Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador is looking for community partners to help make existing oral history collections more accessible to the general public, and can help communities start up new oral history projects to interview local seniors. For more information on the Collective Memories Project or how you or your community organization can get involved, email terra@heritagefoundation.ca or call (709) 739-1892, ext. 5.
- Dale
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Tuesday's Folklore Photo: Riding the Rails
This is a picture of my great grandmother, Ethel Peddle (nee Ivany), taken circa 1927-1933. Her father was a roadmaster with the Newfoundland Railway and she would ride the rails with him from time to time. Originally from Bloomfield, Bonavista Bay, Ethel loved the opportunity to go clothes shopping in Clarenville or St. John's on these trips. This snap was taken in Clarenville when my great grandmother was in her late teens to early twenties.
-Nicole
Friday, December 14, 2012
Mummers Parade Saturday in St. John's, Sunday in Clarenville
Well, the Mummers Festival is banging to a crescendo this weekend!
On Saturday, Dec 15th, we have the Rig Up, the Parade itself, the Mummers Jam, and new this year, Mummeroke!
Remember, we want you to be IN the parade! This is a participatory event, and anyone can dress up and join in.
Also new this year, the Clarenville Mummers Parade and Jam, happening Sunday, Dec 16th.
If you are curious, you can look at the St. John's parade route on Google Maps, or listen to the CBC Radio Noon Crosstalk on mummering.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Clarenville Place Name Project
On the evening of Wednesday, March 4th, I was invited to give an address on intangible cultural heritage for the Clarenville Heritage Society’s annual general meeting. I started off with a folktale about names and naming that I had learned from a past resident of the area, and spoke on the folklore of naming and some of the possible origins of the name “Clarenville” itself.
The Society also used the AGM to inform the public about a place name mapping project they are working on. The group has hired on Carol Diamond as a researcher for the project, utilizing funding through the Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation’s Cultural Economic Development Program. Carol, a Clarenville native, is a Master’s student in Ethnomusicology at Memorial, studying Takudh hymnody of the Gwich’in (an Athapaskan First Nation), focusing specifically on communities in the Yukon.
After the meeting, the group moved from the lecture hall to another room, where we had unfurled maps showing Clarenville and the surrounding area. While some people chatted and shared stories amongst themselves, Carol gathered others around the maps. They pointed out areas they knew, rhymed off names of others, and suggested other residents who might be good sources of local information.
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