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As in-person events return across B.C. this summer, Elephant Mountain Literary Festival retakes the stage for visitors to the mountains and cultural scene of Nelson, B.C., June 23–26. Most events take place at the Prestige Lakeside Resort, as well as venues around town.
Stories aren’t only told through the written word. Photographs can also tell a story of a person, a place or community. Photographer Fred Rosenberg has been telling stories from the streets of Nelson with his camera for four decades. Rosenberg shares his experiences in a talk, “Anecdotal Evidence: A Personal History of Candid Photography,” at the Nelson Library on Wednesday,
In the spring of 2020, Valemount novelist, Maureen Brownlee was planning a book tour to promote her new novel due out in the fall of that year. Like many things, the pandemic put a pause on it all. Now after almost two years, Brownlee celebrates the launch of her new novel, Cambium Blue with an author reading and chat at the Nelson Library on Wednesday, May 4 at 7 p.m. Cambium
Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, an 1829 book by agriculturist Jethro Tull (later adopted as the name of a British rock band) belonged to early Nelson Institute member, and later New Zealand Premier, Alfred Domett. It was found by Christopher Vine among a treasure trove of books in a Teal Valley cottage. Committee member Christopher Vine, 89, said the institute was born at sea, in the mid-Atlantic off Tenerife in the Canary Islands, in 1841. Captain Arthur Wakefield, one of Nelson's founding fathers, called a meeting on board the sailing ship Whitby to establish an institute “whose objects were th...