Rodney Mackay

Rod Mackay's writing and his paintings of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and St.Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. Notes concerning North American folklore, legend and myth.

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Christmas Past 1940

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You are cordially invited to look in on my personal recollections as a child in war time. Sixty new illustrated pages featuring the movies I...

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

The Picton Castle Tragedy Continues

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Ruth and I see the Picton Castle daily when she has been in port, and she has not moved from her berth since arriving home in May, 2007. As ...

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Father Christmas at Mahone Bay

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A modern embodiment of Father Christmas greets well-wishers on Main Street. This town has less than half the population of Lunenburg but to...

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Waiting For Santa at a Lunenburg Wharf

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In our seaport town Santa Claus comes to land on a scallop dragger abd is transported by firetruck to Santa's village at the Christkindl...

Saturday, November 24, 2007

The Strange Season

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CAILLEACH BHEUR OR GEAMIR A supernatural hag of Gaelic popular belief, supposed to have come from Lochlann (loch land, or Norway) carrying a...

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Here's the rub

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The ceiling of that Anglican Church mentioned below "shows how the sky would have appeared at sunset to a viewer at the latitude of Lu...

The Night Sky At The Nativity, Lunenburg, N.S.

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This tiny insert photo of St. John's Anglican Church in Lunenburg was taken late Christmas Eve, 2000 A.D. In the early morning hours of...

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Rodney Mackay: Rodney C Mackay is a traditional painter in the acrylic medium. He has been a newspaper reporter, high school teacher, antique dealer, bookman and biological technician. He married the late Anne Torey of New Glasgow, N.S. in 1957.They had four children. He had his first one man show in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1972 and he has been a full-time painter since that time. Three years after the death of his first wife, he married Ruth Brown in 1998. They reside in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

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