October 2023 I’m making turkey pie. When the kids were small, I loved making turkey pie. It was just a matter of throwing all the turkey dinner leftovers into a pot with a can of cream of chicken soup, add some poultry seasoning, pour it into a frozen pie shell and chuck it in the over. Half an hour later – I am a Queen! “Mom made turkey pie!” the kids would exclaim happily, like I’d just invented magic. There would just be enough to feed us all. Everyone fought to get second

How does a pivotal battle in the American Revolution - a turning point in the war with Britain; one that will be cited by a war-embattled president two and half centuries in the future - how does a deeply symbolic place in US history connect to a tiny community along the Baddeck River on Cape Breton Island? The Battle of Saratoga was a series of clashes between the upstart American Patriots and the British Loyalists who ruled the colonial provinces known as the Thirteen Colon

Thirty-five ago, as I was researching the earliest days of Baddeck, Jonathan Jones came into view. He was on the edges of the history I was exploring, yet not quite in focus. But he and his family were intriguing. Then, I read a letter from the Beaton Institute archives at Cape Breton University in Sydney, N.S., that Jonathan Jones had written in 1797. It compelled me to find out more.  Since then, I have uncovered more letters, specifically in the Solomon Jones fonds at Quee