Author: Kerry Dexter

Categories: Best OfStoriesImage: Early summer: it’s often a season of weddings, graduations, changes, endings, new beginnings. The shifting world situations which were at the beginnings of this series of articles continue to evolve and present their own challenges, too. With those things in mind, here are five pieces of music to spark and accompany reflection, contemplation, celebration, and hope. Sarah-Jane Summers is a fiddle player, composer, and educator who grew up in the Highlands of Scotland. She lives now in Norway, and she’s long been fascinated by the connections between …

Categories: Best OfTravelingImage: It might seem an unlikely place for cultures to meet and for tradition to endure — and for both of those things to happen along side each other — yet such things occur on Cape Breton Island. They have been happening for centuries, as waves of Gaels from Scotland’s Highlands and Western Isles met up with First Nations people, with emigrants from…