Tuesday Night Talks
6:30 pm
Over the past years curator and landscape historian Roger Marsters has walked and camped around and across Nova Scotia’s Upper Bay of Fundy region, from Cape Split to Amherst, experiencing past and present ways of living along these unique and dynamic shores. In this illustrated talk, Roger will discuss these spectacular natural landscapes, and the communities and cultures that they support, using historical images and his own photographs and reflections. Straddling ancient continental boundaries, the Upper Bay of Fundy has been home to human beings since the time of the Sagiwe’k L’nuk (Ancient Ones) at modern-day Debert; its continuing natural and cultural significance has recently been recognized by UNESCO with the Cliffs of Fundy Geopark. From waiting for the tide to change to the sublimity of deep time, Roger offers a muddy-boots perspective on this remarkable place and the people who have lived here.
Roger Marsters is the Curator of History with the Nova Scotia Museum. His research interests focus on the past and present cultural landscapes of Mi’kma’ki/Acadia/Nova Scotia and on experiences of place as they change over time. He is currently completing a manuscript on the landscapes of the Upper Bay of Fundy region.
