Arts & Entertainment
Let it Snow By Anne Lindert-Wentzell I, admittedly, live a frigid lifestyle. I’m not the best conversationalist. In fact, you won’t hear a murmur out of me. Unless of course we meet, unexpectedly, on a cold winter evening, and you’ve partaken in too much holiday cheer! I’ve been known to be a womanizing, alcohol drinking [Read More…]
My Mr. Claus by Kim Drisdelle As I search through my boxes to gather up Christmas ornaments, I slip back in time. I find myself thinking about the many sacrifices my parents, like many parents, make for their children during this ever so meaningful time of year. Over the years, Santa has become the human [Read More…]
Christmas Tuning By Cindy Rule Last Christmas season, about a week or so before the big day, while my daughter Sorcha was eating dinner and I was washing dishes, we started talking about Christmas songs I’m not a big fan of. The list is many and my reasons lengthy, but what it boils down to [Read More…]
My Dancing Snowman By Myrna Beth Lambert I have celebrated many special Christmas holidays, but I will always remember the Christmas of 1946. I was seven years old and it was my last year of childhood innocence, although I didn’t know it at the time. I believed in Santa, the tooth fairy and magical, dancing [Read More…]
We’re full of the Christmas spirit this year at Bread ‘n Molasses and we thought we’d pass it on! So here’s a wonderful little holiday activity you can share with your kids. Click on the picture of the gingerbread house below to make it bigger, then print out as many copies of the drawing as [Read More…]
Spread the word! Come check out our market! Lots of goodies just in time for Christmas! Paintings, arts, crafts, baked goods, and more! This Saturday December 10, 2011, 9am – 3pm. 32 MicMac Road (AAROM Fisheries Building – Former Lodge on Main Hwy) Giv'er MiramichiGiv’er Miramichi is about “What’s up, what’s new, what’s happening”. We…
When my mother was a girl she would walk up the road every weekday morning with her siblings and friends to the old Mountain School, a traditional one-room schoolhouse in Gray Rapids on the Miramichi River in New Brunswick. I’ve grown up listening to stories of how children of all ages and grades learned their [Read More…]
Each year the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival brings the best in classical chamber music to Fredericton, performed by Canada’s most talented artists. To support the Festival, a number of years ago Bruno Bobak generously donated the original and a limited edition of 100 prints of his work, “Blissfield Pool”. We are selling raffle tickets [Read More…]
There will be a local screening of Miss Representation on Thursday November 24th at the James M. Hill Theatre in Miramichi beginning at 6:30pm. Tickets are available at Books Inn and are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. After the screening, there will be community/ panel discussion led by Ivy Lam. All proceeds [Read More…]
Vince Mullin fills his downstairs workshop with a welcoming presence. Sitting back in a worn chair, next to a guitar still under construction, and farther down, a myriad of other stringed instruments in various states, it’s obvious that he’s a busy man. Outside, the nighttime sounds of King George Highway compose a distinctive soundtrack for [Read More…]
On Wednesday us Mighty Miramichiers enjoyed an evening of dessert, tea, fudge, and entertainment presented by the Heritage Players & Miramichi Folksong Festival. The show featured stories and musical impersonations of guests who have performed at the Folksong Festival such as, Rita MacNeil, Men of the Deeps, Tommy Hunter and Stompin Tom to name a…
There is a new art gallery on Water Street in the Historic Chatham Business District that is creating quite a buzz! The Artist Kave Gallery & Exhibits features paintings, sea glass art, photography and pottery from local artists. It was started by Ed Duplessie, Bunny Dempsey, and Jerry G. Duplessie to give artists a place…
You are cordially invited to attend the Miramichi launching of Raymond Fraser’s new book THE TRIALS OF BROTHER BELL SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1-3 PM Books Inn Bookstore, Newcastle, NB _______________________ THE TRIALS OF BROTHER BELL Two highly entertaining novels in one volume: “Repentance Vale” and “The Struggle Outside”. 272 pp. Lion’s Head Press. “Absolutely hilariously…