24 October 2008, Town Hall, Sackville, NB
Ethel ODGEN (1870-1902), Untitled (Cliff), oil on canvas. 21.1 x 30 cm. Owens Art Gallery collection, Sackville, Accession no. 1999.135 (Reproduced from reference material provided by J. Tisdale, 20 October 2008).
Outside the Sackville Town Hall at the main intersection.
Rob McCosh came to see me and gave me a granola bar. We also had a discussion about lobster prices which apparently are down to the price of bologna. Its a luxury food, and if people are feeling threatened by the financial crisis they stop buying lobster. The lobster stocks get stuck at the distributors because no one is buying. Distributors go out of business and the prices of lobster plummet. Rob was saying that in the past lobster used to be the poor man’s food. Bologna was what the rich kids ate because the processed meat cost more.
Chris Ricketts came by and we talked about Canadian Studies with Tom Sherman, Mount Allison was the first university to offer a program after the Centennial celebrations in the late 1960s.
