Desiree DeCoste
Beaver Staff
On the evening of Nov. 23 at the Museum of Lennox & Addington, Adele Crowder will take people through Lucy Stover Davison’s year, a farm family from Chipmunk Ridge.
The event will take place at 97 Thomas St E, Napanee at 7 p.m with a cost of $3 per person for 1 hour. Registration is required.
Fred Brown’s photographs of the immediate district of Odessa and its people in the first decade of the century will illustrate Crowder’s talk. Maps, contemporary video and open source photographs bring the daily life of a farming family into sharp focus.
The family had a focus on their animals, harvests, family and social world. The project invites people’s own family detail: how does Lucy’s diary match your family history? Where does 2021 echo her concern?
The details from Lucy’s year were gleaned from daily records she kept in exercise books.
Crowder lives on a farm on Simmons Road. Her interest was piqued by changes in land use and by the wealth of detail recorded by Lucy Stover Davison. She takes you through Lucy’s year with particular focus on family connections. Adele is a retired ecologist, professor emerita at Queen’s University, whose work on wetlands, mine reclamation and metal toxicity in plants took her across North America and Europe.
Eleanor Crowder put together the visuals for Adele’s presentation. Eleanor, writer, actor, and director, works and teaches in professional theatre in Ottawa and West Quebec. A particular love of hers is touring to small towns.
To register for the event please visit https://museumoflanda.as.me/schedule.php?appointmentType=26920026#