A Time-Honoured Tradition: Story Time…

…Thursday night story time at Ottawa-House-by-the-Sea! The Bay of Fundy was calm, the sky a lead grey foreshadowing tomorrow’s weather forecast of rain as we arrived and parked the car.

Story time goes from 7 – 8:30 pm each Thursday during the summer. We love this time and place for deepening our understanding of the area. Tonight’s stories were varied as always. They touched on shorebirds, migration habits, the starvation ship sailing from Ireland during the great famine, the Christie Trunk & Bag Company, attracting and raising Monarch butterflies, a personal family history and recently unearthed proof with documentation of Sir Charles Tupper’s actual birthplace. His birth place in the official record is listed as Amherst. However, anecdotal evidence, which has been substantiated from various independent sources, have confirmed that he was actually born in Crossroads on the outskirts of Parrsboro!

We always stay for the tea and social following story time because the information exchange continues. We didn’t get home till 10 pm tonight… but it was so worthwhile staying on to listen and ask questions.

Good night, everyone!