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SUMMARY:"Stories Are All We Have: The Shape of Our Footprints"-  History Conference
DESCRIPTION:“Stories Are All We Have: The Shape of Our Footprints”\nSpring 2026 History Conference\n_______________________________________________________ \nFRIDAY EVENING (May 22\, 2026) \nKeynote Speaker Amanda Peters – Author of  “The Berry Pickers“. \nSATURDAY SESSIONS (May 23\, 2026) \nSession Leaders: \nJane Baskwill – “Together in Time: Remembering the Children of Roxbury“ \nAnnapolis Heritage Society – “Israel Delap (1841-1891)- Annapolis County Sea Captain in His Own Voice“ \nMore from Amanda – Her next novel\, The Birthing Tree\, will be published in September of 2026. \n_______________________________________________________ \nDATE: Friday\, May 22rd in the evening and Saturday\, May 23rd all day. \nCOST: $65.00 \nEarly Bird Price – $60.00 before April 1\, 2026   \nCost includes lunch\, snacks\, coffee and tea. \nTo register for the conference\, please complete the form below our presenters’ bios. \nSchedule\nFriday\, May 22nd\n7:00 – 7:30: Registration Check-In and Meet & Greet \n7:30: The History of the Mi’kmaq in the Annapolis Valley with Amanda Peters  [Keynote Speaker] \nSaturday\, May 23rd\n9:00: Good Morning Coffee/Tea and Light Sustenance \n9:30 – 10:45: Together in Time: Remembering the Children of Roxbury with Jane Baskwill \n10:45 – 11:15: Break \n11:15 – 12:30: The Berry Pickers –  Amanda Peters’ new book \n12:30 – 1:30: Lunch \n1:30-2:45: Isreal Delap: An Annapolis County Sea Captain Tells His Own Story of Life in the Age of Sail with Annapolis Heritage Society \n2:45: Plenary Session – How does engaging with these various stories help us to understand\, connect\, define ourselves and our neighbours? \n3:30: Closing and Thanks \nOur Session Leaders\n\n\n\n\n	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Amanda Peters author of"The Berry Pickers" \n\nAmanda Peters is a writer of Mi'kmaq and settler ancestry. Her bestselling debut novel\, The Berry Pickers \, won the Barnes and Nobel Discover Prize\, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction\, the Crime Writers of Canada Best First Novel Award\, and the Dartmouth Book Award. Her short story collection\, Waiting for the Long Night Moon was released in August 2024 and was shortlisted for the Alistair McLeod short fiction prize. Her next novel\, The Birthing Tree\, will be published in September of 2026.\n\nShe has a certificate in creative writing from the University of Toronto\, and she is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. She is a member of Glooscap First Nation and lives in the Annapolis Valley with her fur babies.\n\n“Amanda Peters has a gift for tracing the boundaries of time\, place\, and generations. Her marvel of a first novel\, The Berry Pickers\, was inspired by her father’s stories of summers spent traveling with his family from Nova Scotia to harvest blueberries in Maine.”- Jane Ciabattari in Literary Hub\n\n\n\n	SESSION LEADER: Jane Baskwell with "Together in Time: Remembering the Children of Roxbury" \n\nJane is a Nova Scotia writer whose work blends history\, reflection\, and storytelling. She is the author of Together in Time\, inspired by the abandoned settlement of Roxbury and the children whose lives were rarely recorded. Through her writing and public talks\, Jane explores how memory survives in place and story\, and how imaginative work can help illuminate gaps in the historical record. She lives in Lawrencetown\, where landscape and local history strongly inform her work.\n\nJane says\, “Roxbury has long been described as a ghost town\, but what first drew me there—and what has kept drawing me back—was not simply the idea of ghosts\, but a sense of presence. A feeling that the past is not finished speaking. Over time\, what I felt most present were not the adults whose names appear in official records\, but the children—many of whom died young\, were buried without markers\, and were remembered only through fragile oral stories now at risk of disappearing.” \n\nThrough the children of Roxbury\, we can explore how such stories “can function as acts of remembrance” when all the official stories and records can not. \n\n\n\n	SESSION LEADER: Annapolis Heritage Society with "Israel Delap (1841-1891)-   Annapolis County Sea Captain in His Own Voice " \n\nThe Annapolis Heritage Society was established in 1965 as the Historic Restoration Enterprises. After accomplishing the remarkable task of reclaiming\, preserving\, and displaying the town’s built history\, they have become more than they first envisioned. \n\nIn the words of their website\, “Recognizing the wealth of heritage resources resulting from 400 years of European settlement and the pre-dating Mi’kmaq occupation\, the Society has continued to broaden its activities and now includes artifacts\, genealogical and archival holdings\, photo and costume collections and active heritage programming.” \n\nThey are uniquely suited to help us hear the voice of Captain Israel Delap through his poignant diary entries as he sailed with and without his wife\, Lucretia Croscup Delap and daughter\, Mary Amelia\, until his untimely death far from home. He feared the dangers of the sea\, but it was not that danger that killed him. \n\n\n\n\n \nRegistration\nRegistration has been closed as the conference is full. Thank you.
URL:https://paradisehistoricalsociety.ca/event/history-conference-2026/
LOCATION:Paradise Heritage Centre\, 10307 Highway #1\, Paradise\, Nova Scotia\, Canada
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