Let your fingers do the walking through the Wishbook of connection

then reach out and touch someone

Nova Scotia is a remarkable place, dear reader.

Did you know that we have over 13000 kilometres of coastline?

That’s a lot.

But in US Dollars, it’s only like sixty seven cents.

Here, one is never more than sixty kilometres from the ocean.

Communities were connected by the ocean, not by roads.

East Jeddore and West Jeddore are a mere 500 metres across the inlet but take about thirty five minutes to travel from one community to another by car.

My great grandfather lived as a fisherman, right on the coast. He lived in Clam Harbour and fished out of little harbour.

Back when my Nanny was young, back in the 30’s, there were only two cars on the eastern shore.

We lived pretty far out back then. In those days it took almost a day to get to the train station and another to make it into town on the Blueberry Express.

For the first half of my life, it still seemed remote.

Sure we could drive there in under an hour, so our Sunday trips out for dinner weren’t a burden. At the same time, life out there w…