Talk About the Maritimes

Richard Wilbur is the author of The Rise of French New Brunswick and the
co-author of Silver Harvest: The Fundy Weirmen’s Story.

For faithful listeners to CBC-Maritime radio, the neighborly essays of
Norman Creighton, which aired in the 1960s and 1970s, were a breath of
fresh air. This collection takes us back to that time.

A witness to the rural Maritimes, Creighton described the slow
happenings mostly around the small Annapolis Valley village of
Hantsport, where he lived for most of his 86 years on the old homestead.
Through his usually weekly radio musings, he caught the leisurely pace
of a world that is now, alas, largely gone. This collection takes us
through the four seasons. Creighton’s stories (most of which run three
pages or less) cover, among other topics, local and regional history,
ghost stories, gardens, hunting, and Christmas themes and customs. In
addition to photographs, the book includes line drawings of earlier
illustrations depicting Maritime scenes. This book is a wonderful
evocation of the way it was in the not-so-long-ago Maritimes.