Living Heritage Podcast Ep167 The General Protestant Cemetery with Suzanne Sexty

Suzanne Sexty has been researching the St. John's General Protestant Cemetery and the people buried there since her retirement in 2001. She first moved to Newfoundland in 1968 to work at the Henrietta Harvey Library at Memorial University, and has worked at different libraries in the province and the United States. Suzanne has also recently co-authored a book titled Long Overdue: SS Beverly (1885-1918) about a mercantile ship and crew lost during The First World War. She chats with fellow taphophile Dale Jarvis about the history of the cemetery, and some of its storied inhabitants.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum
professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the
community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio.
Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing. Photo by Krissy Holmes/CBC.

North River Ascension New Horizons - bringing together seniors, youth, and food stories! #FolkloreThursday

We are working on a fun new cookbook project in cooperation with the Town of North River and Ascension Collegiate in Bay Roberts. We've been meeting at the highschool, where we have been having intergenerational chats about food memories, and the young people have been teaching the older people how to use their tablets, laptops, and phones. 

The next step will be to get the students doing some oral history and folklore interviews with the participants about their food stories and memories, digitizing some old photographs and cookbooks, and then pulling everything together into a collection of stories that will be part cookbook and part local history book. 

The group has started a Facebook page here:  North River Ascension New Horizons

The town will be hosting a recipe and photo scanning event on Tuesday, Feb 11th, starting at 10am.  Bring your old family recipes, those cocoa-stained cookbooks with all the notes, and your old family photo albums.  Have a cup of tea, and we'll scan them for you right there, and you can take your materials home again immediately!  We'd love to have a photo and recipe from each North River family if possible. 

Living Heritage Podcast Ep166 The Photographic Historical Society with Edith Cuerrier

Edith Cuerrier is a French Canadian who grew up near Montreal and has been living in Newfoundland for almost two decades.  Edith has a background in photography and photo preservation and has worked as an archivist, project cataloger, and military photographer. She served in the Royal Canadian Air Force for 22 years before earning a Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology from Memorial University in 2006. In 2009, Edith completed a Master’s in photo preservation and collection management at Ryerson University. She works at The Rooms Provincial Archives in St. John’s. In 2016, Edith founded the Photographic Historical Society of Newfoundland.

You can join the society or learn more on the Photographic Historical Society on their Facebook page.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio. Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

Multigenerational Mug Up - When I Was Your Age. Feb 13th

Heritage NL and Marjorie Mews Public Library are hosting a special Multigenerational Mug Up, entitled, "When I Was Your Age." We would love you to bring a memory about your youth, and to bring a friend, someone younger or older than yourself. It is a memory-sharing session for all ages, to encourage the flow of stories and memories across generations. Bring your mother, your auntie, your grandchild, your nephew, all welcome!

10am
Feb 13th
Marjorie Mews Public Library
12 Highland Drive, St. John's

Living Heritage Podcast Ep165 The Tidal Wave Tsunami with Carl Slaney

In this episode, Carl Slaney of Laurentian Legacy Tours talks about the new tour he is developing for the summer of 2020. Its a guided historical hiking tour about the Tidal Wave, a tsunami that devastated St. Lawrence, Newfoundland and surrounding communities in November of 1929. Carl shares residents personal accounts of the earthquake and tsunami, as well as the effects this event had in the years that followed.


Learn more about Laurentian Legacy Tours here.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio. Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

Living Heritage Podcast Ep164 The Harry Hibbs Exhibit is Coming to Bell Island

Linda Hickey, Chair of the Bell Island Heritage Society, tells us all about a new exhibit on Newfoundland accordion player Harry Hibbs coming to the Bell Island Museum on July 25, 2020. We talk about the exhibit, Hibbs' influence on Newfoundland musicians and listeners, and discover that accordion music is alive and well on the island today.

Image of Harry Hibbs from Heritage Newfoundland & Labrador.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio. Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

Winter Memories - A Mug Up (with free hot chocolate!) at Marjorie Mews, Jan 9th.

What are your winter memories of sliding, skating, ice fishing, new winter boots, or knitted mittens? Come tell us! You bring a memory, we'll brew up the hot chocolate!

The Mug Up Series is an informal story sharing session hosted by folklorist Dale Jarvis, where people gather, have a snack, and share memories. The event is free and open to anyone!

10am
Thursday, January 9th
Marjorie Mews Public Library.
12 Highland Drive, St. John's,

Chapter by HeritageNL authors in new book - Traditional Food: Sharing Experiences from the Field

The International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region has recently published the book Living Heritage Series – Traditional Food in collaboration with the ICHNGO Forum’s #HeritageAlive. The Living Heritage Series is a serial publication on regional/national transmission and safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage elements. It focuses on a different topic each time, discussing the relevant intangible cultural heritage of various regions to raise the visibility of cultural diversity emphasized by the UNESCO.

Living Heritage Series-Traditional Food showcases creative and historical traditional food from around the world through contributions from 16 writers in various countries, including a chapter by Dale Jarvis and Terra Barrett of Heritage NL.

You can download the book as a pdf right here.

Events this week: Christmas Memories, Carols, and Mummers

It is a busy week for intangible cultural heritage in St. John's!

This week:

Mummer Memories Mug Up at Marjorie Mews!

THU, 12 DEC AT 10:00

Marjorie Mews Public Library · St. John's, NL

Cost: Free Event!

Christmas is right around the corner, and that means lots of holiday memories. But is Christmas today exactly what it was years ago? Some of the older traditions are changing, perhaps, and there is always the danger that the stories of yesteryear could vanish.  Don't be a Grinch, and help us save the traditions of Yuletide! We want your memories of mummers, jannies, hobby horses, year-end customs, and how you celebrated the full 12 Days of Christmas. You bring a memory, we'll bring the syrup and jam jams! A free event, sponsored by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador, as part of its Memory Mug Up program.

Facebook event listing

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The Heart's Delight - Islington Christmas Carols

THU, 12 DEC AT 2:30 pm

The Rooms

Where: Level 3 Atrium

Cost: Free Event!

If you grew up in Heart's Delight - Islington, your Christmas memories might include waking up late at night to the sound of community men reverently singing two ancient carols, passed down for over a century, in the darkened porch of your home. Other communities in the area, such as Cavendish and Green's Harbour, also once practiced a version of this house-to-house caroling, but today the tradition remains strongest in Heart's Delight-Islington. Join folklorist Dale Jarvis in conversation with the local tradition bearers who are working, and singing, to keep this old Christmas custom shining bright.

The Rooms event listing

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Mummers Parade!

SAT, 14 DEC AT 2PM

The Lantern

35 Barnes Road

Cost: Free Event!

Haul on Mudder's sized 42 bra and get your pillow-stuffed arse down to the Mummers Parade! Let's celebrate our culture and keep our traditions alive. All mummers 'llowed in!

Full details on the Mummers Festival website