Sara Spike

I've been working with Sarah on a project about the history of forestry in our area. Her presentation tonight was excellent; her GIS skills are incredible! We'll be sharing the results of this work this fall. Get in touch if you have any personal knowledge of sawmills in Halifax County!

You were great! Your talk was excellent and clearly demonstrated the incredible skill that goes into creating these maps. And people are excited to contribute their knowledge to the project too!

Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and artists streamed transient images into dark interior spaces with the help of a camera obscura. Julie Park explores...

My essay on how the early modern camera obscura brought us more deeply into our interior lives is now live @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ea...

Blue water over the gunwhale of an aluminum boat.

Two people wearing sun hats and life jackets fishing with rods from a small aluminum boat. A beagle is sitting on one person's lap.

Two mackerel caught on a line being lifted into the air.

A white bucket on a wooden wharf with 7 small mackerel in it and a beagle looking in.

Mackerel xo

Manchester University Press - Electric wind Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley

I was excited to find out that my book is available for pre-order! One for anyone interested in energy, climate, and the history of Britain. Thanks to MUP for making it pretty and affordable 🫶 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Congratulations! The cover is beautiful, and the book sounds great!

Two people walking away from the camera on a flat gravelled trail with bright blue sky and blue water around them.

I was asked to write about my local section of the Trans Canada Trail. Here is my short essay called "Remembering the Blueberry Express," about rail to trail along the coast of Nova Scotia tctrail.ca/stories/reme...
#envhist #cdnhist @transcanadatrail.bsky.social

It was beautiful today, a perfect sunny/foggy mix!

A small white building with a red roof on a hill surrounded by fog, a yellow sign warns that the fog alarm may sound at any time.

Finally found the fog, at Cape Spear Lighthouse xo

The way the blueberries feel when I roll them from their stems with my thumbs into my palm.

@sociologyofplants.bsky.social can you point Tina to environmental histories of beer?
Tina, Jennifer is writing a book about the history of hops in the US Midwest and has taught beer histories 🍻

Enjoy it! There is a heat wave and not a wisp of fog here in St. John's this week haha

A reading room with large brown tables and filing cabinets along the wall.

A MUNFLA Legend Index card with synopsis of a story from Change Islands: the cries of men drowned at sea could be heard on foggy summer nights until a priest rowed out and gave them a proper burial service.

Getting foggy at the Memorial U Folklore and Language Archive @munfla-archive.bsky.social

A woman in 1940s garb on a poster advertising the 1940s Costume Magic Fashion Gala at Memory Lane Heritage Village, August 9 and 10.

My mom made a lot of the clothes for this fashion show, based on historical photos from our local archives. It promises to be a lovely time, and another great reason to come to the Eastern Shore 💗
visitmemorylane.ca/events/1940s...

A pile of yellowed paper on a wooden table beside a big window looking out over St. John's harbour.

Looking for fog in St. John's at @theroomsnl.bsky.social

(Weather) A high fog settles over the Halifax waterfront as temperatures climb today.

Temperatures are expected to climb into 30+c over the next few days with high humidity.

Molly the dog was definitely taking advantage of a fun cool down activity. Take steps to avoid heat related illnesses

Three puffins perched at the edge of a rocky cliff, the foggy ocean behind them.

Heading to eastern Newfoundland to visit archives and talk to folks about fog. Any suggestions for fog- or non-fog-related activities, great community museums, excellent food, people to connect with all greatly appreciated! Hoping to get back to Elliston, where I took this photo a few years ago ❤️

Thank you Sonja! 🌊

Three puffins perched at the edge of a rocky cliff, the foggy ocean behind them.

Heading to eastern Newfoundland to visit archives and talk to folks about fog. Any suggestions for fog- or non-fog-related activities, great community museums, excellent food, people to connect with all greatly appreciated! Hoping to get back to Elliston, where I took this photo a few years ago ❤️

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I asked our friend Paul to design this Cooler At The Coast shirt for Jeff's birthday and it turned out so rad! Now you can get your own and/or some other cool stuff from him! Check out the Peace Worm pin ☮︎

Congratulations on running a fabulous project that will have a lasting impact!

A Decade of Conversation It has now been a decade since Borealia was launched, in 2015, with the intention of amplifying scholarship on northern North America before the twentieth century. We hoped it would be a forum wher…

We're grateful for a decade of conversation about early Canadian history at @earlycanada.bsky.social, and now we have decided to wrap up Borealia as an active project (after this week's 3-part finale, M, W, F). A few closing thoughts here: earlycanadianhistory.ca/2025/07/06/a...

Four dogs in a row standing on a sandy beach on a very foggy day.

A bend in a channel, everything is grey and foggy.

The horizon is a low strip of beach grass across a still channel in the fog.

Ripples left on the sand by the receding tide in the fog.

Fog dogs xo

This is wild, I have never tried propagating it. Come get a clump :) It is so beautiful, definitely a favourite!

A cluster of green shamrock-shaped leaves and a few delicate white and pink star-shaped flowers.

Early July in the understory means wood sorrel (Oxalis montana) #wildflowers #bloomscrolling

Green background with white text on top stating: “We are hiring!” Below is a black and white photo of 10 women working around four desks in a newspaper bullpen. Below the photo is white text stating: “Active History is hiring a part-time site manager. Come work with us!”

We are hiring a part-time site manager! Applications due July 11th.
For more information:
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/05...

& an early start, river & tributary showing their courses in exhaled spectres of mist & the sun when it comes does so powerfully to burn off ghosts quickly

“the stories come alive in it”: Renewing lakotowakən in the Waponahki homelands The Wolastoqewi Elder and traditional artist Gina Brooks invited the literary scholar Rachel Bryant to make paper from a lichen commonly known as old man’s beard. Gina wanted the paper to line the lid...

I love this essay about the historical ecology of a land haunted by caribou, and the restoration of a Wolastoqey birch bark basket by Elder Gina Brooks and @rmbryant.bsky.social
"although Wolastokuk no longer holds caribou, it continues to hold caribou food" #envhist #envhum #cdnhist