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Sara Spike

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Cultural historian of rural communities and coastal environments in Atlantic Canada. The ocean and the woods. Visual cultures. Senses. Fog. Flora. Instructor at Dalhousie University. Chair of the Executive Cmte, NiCHE. PhD, settler, she/her

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Storm across the harbour ⛈️

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Shelly is very serious about smells

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Late June with Shelmerdine Beagle xo

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"side of the road" has been named the sixth major biome

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Service announcement for central Canada: the serviceberry/Saskatoon trees planted ornamentally all over your cities are now laden with delicious, ripe fruit! Go forth and browse your sidewalk buffet!

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Beautiful show at the MAC, contemporary Quebecoise women artists, responding to the environment, landscape, climate change, mostly video and sculpture. The breathing beach stones in asinnajaq's "rock piece" made me cry #envhum

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Grain silos for the Port of Montreal :)

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Wonderful exhibit at the CCA in Montreal about the creation of a museum on Meizhou Island, China, by architect Xu Tiantian. #coastalhistory and heritage explored through design engagements with shifting tidescapes, traditional fisheries, and local practices
#envhist

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& the small movements - a great tit describing territory, the jellied cobble of spawn, 1st flair of coltsfoot - amongst the dreck of strewn persistence

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Well, looks like I'll post here more often. It may be blue, but at least it doesn't seem sad like the other X place.

Here's my Morning File from Thursday. I got to hang out with Stephen Archibald to notice what he notices in the city.

www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

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I have seen this! I bet it was amazing. Grannies make the very best bread, always ♥️

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You're welcome/sorry for bringing up this nice food memory!

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Nan-made brown bread is of course always the very best ♥️

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Shared traditional Maritime brown bread with my Atlantic World history class as we considered the past and ongoing connections of Caribbean enslavement and the culture of Nova Scotia. Various recipes for this molasses yeast bread are staples of Atlantic Canadian kitchens, unknown outside the region

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Our book is out! The brilliant Pavla Šimková and I have had an immense pleasure to work on this book with researchers (and their islands), across the globe. The book is now available in print, and online Open Access: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12...
Thank you, The White Horse press!

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Snow receding, plump red over-wintered wintergreen berries (Gaultheria procumbens) pop against bright green mosses, while last year's leathery mayflower leaves (Epigaea repens) prepare for new blooms. Spring is coming! I'll return to posting #wildflowers here on Bsky; I hope you'll share yours too!

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😍 someone is gathering periwinkles at low tide and bringing them to their burrow under a mountain ash at the edge of the woods, but whomst?!

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Weird winter, weird weather, but this week looks good for making sugar 💛🍁

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Many thanks to @stillots1.bsky.social for speaking to my Atlantic World class about her article "Importing the Plantation." Her talk was full of wonderful reminders to read widely, stay curious, acknowledge the work of others, and "be a little sleuthy" to build context and gain fluency in the past.

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The March 2024 issue of Coastal Studies & Society is OUT NOW.

Featuring papers on paintings of the Baltic Coast, Great Yarmouth's circus history, & the impact of sea level rise on Vancouver's coastal communities.

Thank you to all contributing authors.

journals.sagepub.com/toc/CLS/curr...

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No photos from the Sussex coast tonight, sadly. We're covered in sea fog. I do love listening to the foghorn from Newhaven lighthouse even though in the past ship's crews knew it signified danger. *Photo of Sennen Cove, Cornwall, in the fog many years ago, not Sussex!

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Glad you're enjoying it! Be sure to follow the link to the other pages. So many fantastic creatures!

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May we suggest: a nap in a sunny spot on this last Sunday of February

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a lovely summery scent, I hope you find some :)

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Thank you, Sara, for drawing my attention to something fascinating I wouldn’t have known about otherwise! (Borrowed from Ottawa Public Library.)

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Oh wonderful! Yes fascinating is the word. Enjoy! And yay libraries!

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Mauve periwinkle violet indigo ❄️

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Coming this May from Figure.1, my first book in 5 years: People of the Watershed.’ Curated from 100s of photographs taken by John Macfie in the 1950s and 60s, and coinciding with the exhibition opening at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in May…

www.figure1publishing.com/deal-announc...

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Hashtag more than enough snow thank you

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So grateful for good neighbours; I'll return the favour with a pie :)

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In rural Nova Scotia, if you're lucky, sometimes you come home to a bag of fresh fish fillets on your doorknob ♥️🐟

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I loved this novel, so closely tied to the ecology and #envhist of the Northeast: centuries of forest succession, clearing and regrowth, chestnuts and elms, blights and storms; the serendipity of apple cultivars; wild mushrooms and mosses and spring ephemerals. I know the deep magic of these woods 💚

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Yes I love them, dream-like almost mystical

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The local beaver has been busy since the snowstorm last week. Seems they have moved on from alders and young maples to mature birches 🦫♥️

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