Lecture / Seminar
patrick.kelly@dal.ca
(902) 494-3294
Event in Room: BAC241
Images & Minerals: Adventures on the Fundy Shores by David and Chris Sheppard. Fundy Rocks explores the Bay of Fundy and Minas Channel shores to uncover beautiful minerals and to document the beauty of the majestic North Mountain that ends with Cape Blomidon and Cape Split through scenic photography. We follow the footprints of Samuel de Champlain, who first found amethyst here in the early 1600s and the tales of the Mi’maq whose legends tell us that the gems sought here were once the treasure trove of the Mighty Giant Glooscap.
Chris Sheppard: Chris is the driving force behind Fundy Rocks, created in 2011 to promote hiking, rock collecting and outdoor photography. Chris is a classically trained actor who graduated from Acadia University and from Circle in the Square in New York City. He has been a professional pastry designer and chef at a fine dining establishment in Halifax, and now counsels and instructs adults with intellectual disabilities at Flower Cart in New Minas. Four years ago, after returning to his home town of Wolfville, he began hiking, then rockhounding and now is emerging as a photographic artist, combining all three hobbies. David E. Sheppard: David is a retired literature teacher who taught at Horton High School for 36 years after graduating from Acadia University. After retiring, he spent 18 months in the UK, where he hiked and travelled, writing a travel/history/literature blog about his adventures. He has always been an avid photographer. His re-introduction to hiking, given up after his teens when he spent several months hiking around Europe, was in 2010, when his son took him down the 500-foot ropes to Amethyst Cove. Now limited to easily accessible sites, David is the Chronicler, Photo Editor, Archivist and Organizer for Fundy Rocks, which already has a catalogue of several thousand photographs of mineral specimens and photos from the nearly 300 Bay of Fundy hikes Chris has taken on his exploration of these shores.
patrick.kelly@dal.ca
(902) 494-3294
Event in Room: BAC241
Images & Minerals: Adventures on the Fundy Shores by David and Chris Sheppard. Fundy Rocks explores the Bay of Fundy and Minas Channel shores to uncover beautiful minerals and to document the beauty of the majestic North Mountain that ends with Cape Blomidon and Cape Split through scenic photography. We follow the footprints of Samuel de Champlain, who first found amethyst here in the early 1600s and the tales of the Mi’maq whose legends tell us that the gems sought here were once the treasure trove of the Mighty Giant Glooscap.
Chris Sheppard: Chris is the driving force behind Fundy Rocks, created in 2011 to promote hiking, rock collecting and outdoor photography. Chris is a classically trained actor who graduated from Acadia University and from Circle in the Square in New York City. He has been a professional pastry designer and chef at a fine dining establishment in Halifax, and now counsels and instructs adults with intellectual disabilities at Flower Cart in New Minas. Four years ago, after returning to his home town of Wolfville, he began hiking, then rockhounding and now is emerging as a photographic artist, combining all three hobbies. David E. Sheppard: David is a retired literature teacher who taught at Horton High School for 36 years after graduating from Acadia University. After retiring, he spent 18 months in the UK, where he hiked and travelled, writing a travel/history/literature blog about his adventures. He has always been an avid photographer. His re-introduction to hiking, given up after his teens when he spent several months hiking around Europe, was in 2010, when his son took him down the 500-foot ropes to Amethyst Cove. Now limited to easily accessible sites, David is the Chronicler, Photo Editor, Archivist and Organizer for Fundy Rocks, which already has a catalogue of several thousand photographs of mineral specimens and photos from the nearly 300 Bay of Fundy hikes Chris has taken on his exploration of these shores.
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Pricing: Free
24 University Avenue
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
leanna.mcdonald@acadiau.ca
902-585-1140
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