Thursday, April 29, 2021

I'm Telling Mom! A Virtual Memory Mug Up with Dale Jarvis


Tuesday, May 4th, 2021
2pm
Free Online Event!

Register at:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdu6rqDktH90LzBuKrtdDP480IR4v7z3a 

Mother’s Day will soon be upon us, and this is the perfect time for sharing memories or stories of your mom (or tattling on your siblings). 

Did you know the modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1907, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in West Virginia? It’s true, and Anna’s long-lost fifth cousin twice-removed* Dale Jarvis, folklorist with Heritage NL, will act as host for an afternoon of sharing stories all about your mom! 

This is a group storytelling event for all ages, but primarily meant as a way to preserve and share the stories of our seniors. We’re keeping our moms (and us) safe by chatting virtually on Zoom this coming Tuesday.  So, register for the session, put on your kettle, and we’ll settle in for a chat and some family gossip. 

An online partnership between NL Public Libraries and Heritage NL’s Intangible Cultural Heritage program. 


For more information contact:

juliamayo@nlpl.ca 

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdu6rqDktH90LzBuKrtdDP480IR4v7z3a 


*this may or may not be true. 






Friday, April 23, 2021

Living Heritage Podcast Ep205 The Devon Rural Skills Trust, with Chris Baker

Stone walling training course, south Devon.


Many of the traditional features of the English countryside such as dry stone walls and hedge banks were originally created and maintained by rural craftsmen, using the skills that were passed from father to son. In recent years, these skills have been at risk of being forgotten. The Devon Rural Skills Trust was established in 1980 with a view to safeguarding the future of those traditional skills while the men and women who practiced them were still able to pass on their knowledge. 

Laying hazel with a billhook on a south Devon farm from one of the DRST training courses.

DRST’s 2019 hedge laying competition, showing bank with small trees/shrubs laid on top.


During this time the Trust has trained thousands of people, providing them with the skills and knowledge to practice traditional rural skills. One of those people is Chris Baker, the Trust’s Publicity Officer. We chat about the work of the Trust, hedges, stone walls, Devon’s link to Newfoundland, and cabbages. 

Credit: All photos courtesy Chris Baker, used with his permission. 



Finished product of a wattle hurdle course


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Living Heritage 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.

Monday, April 19, 2021

So, what is a Folk School anyway? Join us on April 28th, and find out!




Amidst a resurgence of interest in everything from knitting and baking to blacksmithing, Heritage NL is hosting an online discussion about how folk schools in other parts of the world teach those kinds of traditional skills. “Folk Schools and Crafts Education” is scheduled for the evening of April 28th, and attendees are encouraged to think about how the folk school model might be applied in Newfoundland and Labrador.

“Over the past 20 years, a growing interest in the folk school model and creative education has contributed to supporting, encouraging, and revitalizing craft and handmade skills,” says Dr. Kelley Totten, Assistant Professor of Folklore at Memorial University, one of three panelists participating in the session. Totten has been a student and employee of folk schools in the United States, wrote a dissertation about folk schools, and is currently expanding that research to look at folk schools in Canada. 

The other two panelists are currently working at folk schools in the US. Jessa Frost is Program Director at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, Minnesota, where they teach a range of skills including timber framing, outdoors skills, art and traditional crafts like leatherworking, tinsmithing, soap-making, net-making and basketry. And Martha Owen is a Resident Artist at John C Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina who specializes in everything related to wool, from keeping her own flock of sheep to spinning, knitting, dyeing and feltmaking. 

"Traditional skills and crafts are at the heart of Newfoundland and Labrador's heritage," says Heritage NL folklorist Dale Jarvis. "We are very excited to host this session to share ideas on how we can continue to nurture those skills for the next generation.”

Folk Schools and Crafts Education will be hosted on Zoom at 7pm on April 28, 2021 and is open to anyone with an interest in learning about the folk schools model or supporting local crafts traditions and skills training. It’s free but registration is required and details are on Heritage NL’s website and Facebook page or you can register directly at www.heritagecraft.ca.

Friday, April 9, 2021

Living Heritage Podcast Ep204 Dry stone wall building and its place in Newfoundland's heritage


For over 40 years, Dan Snow has been building dry stone constructions in his native Windham County, Vermont and beyond. From the practical to the fantastical, his works in stone fuse vanguard vision with old world techniques and traditions. His work has been the subject of articles in numerous journals, including “This Old House”, "Vermont Magazine" and “Vermont Life” magazines, and the “New York Times" and the "Boston Globe.” 

Way back on 18 August 2010, Dan and provincial folklorist Dale Jarvis sat down for a chat at the Two Whales Coffee Shop in Port Rexton about the tradition and the art of stonework, the place that dry stone wall building holds in the heritage of Newfoundland, and Dan's dry stone courses taught in partnership with the English Harbour Arts Centre. 


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Living Heritage 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.

Friday, April 2, 2021

A recipe for Old Time Pork Cake, just in time for #FoodwaysFriday!

We want your old North River, Conception Bay, recipes for a community heritage book!  You can email a photo of your recipe to dale@heritagenl.ca or drop off a copy to Mayor Joanne Morrissey at the Town Office.




Old Time Pork Cake


1 cup finely ground pork

1 cup hot strong coffee

1 cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon each of allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 eggs well beaten

⅔ cup of molasses

3 cups sifted flour

2 cups raisins

1 cup currants

2 cup mixed peel


Place pork in bowl. Pour hot coffee over it and let stand until cold

Sugar spices and soda - stir into pork and then add well beaten eggs and molasses.

Two tablespoons of flour over fruit, add raisins

Flour to the pork mixture, stirring until well blended

Add the floured fruit. Use a nine or ten inch baking pan and line it with three layers of brown paper.

Bake at 275° for about three hours.


Thursday, April 1, 2021

Dark Fruit Cake - Aunt Josie's Recipe from North River, Conception Bay

We want your old North River, Conception Bay, recipes for a community heritage book!  You can email a photo of your recipe to dale@heritagenl.ca or drop off a copy to Mayor Joanne Morrissey at the Town Office.




Dark Fruit Cake - Aunt Josie’s Recipe


1pkg currants

1pkg raisins

1pkg mixed peel

1 pkg cherries

1 cup nuts

2 ¼ cups sugar (I use 1 cup)

2 ¼ cups water

1 lb Good Luck Butter

1 tsp mace

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp cloves

1 tsp allspice

Put all the above in pot & bring to boil for 5 mins. Let cool. Add 3 eggs beaten & 2 tsp vanilla. STIR. Then add dry ingredients:

3 ⅓ cups flour

2 tsp soda

2tsp baking powder


Bake 275° fo 2 ½ - 3 hrs


Friday, March 26, 2021

News Release: New Executive Director at Heritage NL

For Immediate Release

March 26, 2021

Heritage NL will see new faces in a couple of key positions in the upcoming weeks.  Executive Director, Jerry Dick, will be retiring at the end of April to be replaced by Dale Jarvis, a long-time employee at the organization. Jerry has been serving in the position for the last five years. In his words, “my time at Heritage NL has been a great way to finish off a career in my adopted home of Newfoundland and Labrador.  I have valued the opportunity to work with so many people and communities who are passionate about protecting and developing their heritage resources.  And I am grateful to have worked with a talented and dedicated staff and board.”  

According to former chair Dave Lough, “in his 35-year career in heritage and community development in Newfoundland and Labrador, Jerry has made a significant contribution on the regional, provincial, and national stage.  Together with his team he has helped to build the Heritage NL “brand” and has further expanded the organization’s outreach throughout the province, including Labrador.  While at Heritage NL he strove to bring together the preservation and commemoration side of heritage with community economic development and adaptive reuse.  He was often heard to say that a community’s heritage assets were some of its most important resources.  We wish him well in his retirement.”

Dale Jarvis has worked with the foundation for nearly 25 years in various capacities.  For the last 12 years he has served in the role of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Officer.  Dale brings a wealth of experience to the position both in the areas of built heritage and ICH.  His dedication and passion, and the profile he has built up along with his many connections across Newfoundland and Labrador will serve Heritage NL well. 

Heritage NL is a provincial crown agency with a mandate to support the preservation of Newfoundland and Labrador’s built heritage, the safeguarding of its Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the commemoration of its history.

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For additional information contact:  

Jerry Dick

Tel. 709-739-1892

Email: jerry@heritagenl.ca

Living Heritage Podcast Ep203 The Furniture Art of Henry William Winter


During the late 19th and early 20th century, Henry William Winter, an ambitious self-taught furniture maker in Clarke's Beach, Conception Bay, mass-produced furniture using simple hand tools and a few primitive machines. These included a foot-powered jig saw, a foot-operated lathe and a larger lathe designed to be driven manually or powered by a dog. His home stands today, beautifully restored by his family, as a Registered Heritage Structure. Recorded on October 4th, 2008, folklorist and storyteller Dale Gilbert Jarvis had a conversation with the grandson of this legendary furniture maker, William (Bill) Winter, and Newfoundland furniture expert Walter Peddle, about Henry William Winter's life and legacy.



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Living Heritage 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.

Rural Routes Podcast: Along The Baccalieu Trail

 



This week, we are turning the podcast over to Bojan Furst at Rural Routes. In this episode, Bojan talks to Dale Jarvis, intangible cultural heritage officer for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and research associate at the Folklore Department at Memorial University, and Natalie Dignam, a researcher and a broadcaster based in St. John's. We talked about intangible culture heritage along Baccalieu Trail in Newfoundland and how it can create tourism opportunities for the region. We also talked about community radio, Newfoundland ponies, traditional skills, and why we need to start paying attention to local knowledge.