Archives for: August 2012

08/09/12


Categories: RPL News, Programs & Services

Important Update Re: Parking at Central Library

This weekend, Victoria Park is playing host to the always popular Regina Folk Festival. Starting today (August 9) til Sunday, August 12, Lorne Street (in front of Central Library) is closed to all traffic including parking. Regular parking in front of the library will resume on Monday, August 13. The library apologizes for the inconvenience.

Patrons are also reminded that starting on August 18, the city will be enforcing the two hour parking limit at metered stalls on Saturdays. Drivers caught parking their vehicles for more than the allotted time, will be ticketed.



Categories: New Books

New PHR Books for August - Part 1

Summach, Sheena, editor. Braided Streams: Celebrating the Saskatchewan Literacy Network. Saskatoon, SK : [S.l.], 2009.

Editor's Note: "As a disclaimed, this book is far from a 20 year look into the history of literacy in the province. It is far from an all-inclusive history of the SLN [Saskatchewan Literacy Network]. A conversation that started out merely to discuss compiling a history fot he SLN's 20 years grew into what would become a journey into a vibrant past to discover and share the stories of those individuals who had shared in the passion, devotion, and tenacity. This book hopes to journey down a few of those braided streams that together create the forceful flow which carves its mark on the landscape around."

Moore, Jacqueline. The Saskatchewan Secret: Folk Healers, Diviners, and Mystics of the Prairies. [Regina, Sask.] : Benchmark Press, c2009.

Summary: Join Jacqueline Moore on a pilgrimage to meet some amazing Saskatchewan healers. This journey takes us out into the prairies, the villages, the forests and the suburbs to introduce us to thirteen of the province's folk medicine practitioners. These are rare and gifted individuals; each of them is utilizing their unique form of organic chemistry or subtle energies, each of them quietly making a remarkable difference in the lives of others. For the author, the quest becomes a personal one which candidly explores life, death, and most everything in between. This book is an homage to these healers, and an offering to share in the wisdom they have gathered about the natural world and our place in it

Pepper, Thelma. Human Touch: Portraits of Strength, Courage and Dignity. Regina, SK: Pepper Pub., c2011.

Summary: [The book] draws upon four collections and exhibitions of Thelma Pepper's portrait photographs that she began back in the early 1980's, while a member of the Photographers Gallery of Saskatoon. The book, comprised of over 50 black and white portrait images, also includes essays by Grant Arnold and Elizabeth Philips, as well as a poem written by Lorna Crozier. Although the majority of Canadian photography books have landscape as the primary focus, Thelma's photographs reveal and share the stories of the lives of the people who inhabit this land. These portraits provide an opportunity, and an insight, into understanding the potential strength and character of the human disposition.


08/03/12


Categories: New Magazines

New Magazines for August

Just in time for the August long weekend...

Alberta History, Summer 2012, Vol. 60, No. 3

* "Charles M. Russell and Guy Weadick: A Match Made in Stampede Heaven" by Brian W. Dippie, pgs. 15-22.

* "Stampede Park: Origins of a Gathering Place" by Aimee Benoit, pgs. 23-32.

* "The Zeitgeist of Western Settlement and the Calgary Stampede" by David C. Jones, pgs. 43-52.

Note: Issue also contains "History Now", The Historical Society of Alberta Newsletter, for July 2012, no. 3.

Manitoba History, Spring 2012, No. 68

* "Developing a Better Model: Aboriginal Employment and the Resource Community of Leaf Rapids, Manitoba (1971-1977)" by Sarah J. Ramsden, pgs. 6-16.

* "High Stakes and Hard Times: Herb Lake and Depression-Era Mining in Northern Manitoba" by Will Steniburg, pgs. 17-27.

* "W. J. Waines, the IUN Crisis of 1978, and the Development of Post-Secondary Education in Northern Manitoba" by Jennifer Marchant, pgs. 28-34.

Note: Issue also contains "Time Lines", The Manitoba Historical Society Newsletter, for June-September 2012, Vol. 44, no. 3.


Revue Historique, Printemps 2012, Vol. 22, No. 3

* "Un passé parfois oublié" par Céline Giguère, pgs. 6-15.

* "De la Franche-Comté à la Saskatchewan" par Linda Reverchon, pgs. 21-26.

* "Le cheminement de Fracis Kasongo" par Laurier Gareau, pgs. 33-35.

Folklore,Summer 2012, Vol. 33, No. 3

* "Church on the Move" by Bev Lundahl, pgs. 12-15. Note: article is about the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Stanley Mission. To learn more about the church's history, you check out the Saskatchewan produced Edifice and Us episode which is now available for viewing in the Prairie History Room.

* "Ella Davis - A Self-Taught Artist" by Lois Lee, pgs, 22-23.

* "The Royal Visit To Moose Jaw - May 25, 1939" by Shirley Lomheim, pgs.24-25.

* "Terror from the Sky: The Regina Tornado of 1912" by Keith Foster, pgs. 26-29.

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Note: These issues can be borrowed for 1 week. Back issues of most Prairie History Room magazines are kept in the shelf behind the current issue and can also be borrowed for a 1 week loan period.


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