Old city, new life

I've moved back home to my home province and have started a whole new chapter in my life. It was not a graceful return, but more of a stumble toward a 'proper situation' as Miss Jane Austen might term it.

Thankfully the old city of Saint John, New Brunswick has its share of charms and distractions to help alleviate some of the frustration of house hunting and orientation to a different way of living. The distractions have been offered by the Church of Saint Andrew and Saint David with their noontime concert series. The most recent was visiting hometown boy, Phillip Thomson, a pianist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He is a known expert in Liszt. He even kind of looked like the old portraits of the great pianist.

The NBM offered another distraction with their promotion of a self-guided tour book, Rebuilt in Stone, featuring the uptown buildings and the stone that made them. It is co-written by industry and architecture curator, Gary Hughes and geology and palaeontology curator, Dr Randell Miller. The book is available at the Museum Exhibit area in Market Square.

There is lots coming up and I'm hoping to catch as much as I can fit in my schedule. Next up are the summer plays by the SJTC.