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General Discussion => Any and Every Thing => Topic started by: Perry on March 14, 2017, 08:59:16 am

Title: Interesting?
Post by: Perry on March 14, 2017, 08:59:16 am

For a province with a population of less than one million, we seem to have some geographical advantages. World's second deepest harbour, and now this.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rocket-launch-site-confirmed-for-canso-nova-scotia-1.4023808

Title: Re: Interesting?
Post by: CBT on March 14, 2017, 09:14:30 pm

That sounds great for you guys. Maybe they need to keep the rocket fuel really cold. :yes: :yes:

Title: Re: Interesting?
Post by: LazyBkpr on March 15, 2017, 04:52:10 pm

WOW! Imagine ten thousand Canadians wearing parkas and holding weenie sticks waiting for the liftoff!  :yes:


   yeah yeah... count me in!

Title: Re: Interesting?
Post by: tedh on March 15, 2017, 06:19:10 pm

Thats funny Scott.  Wife wanted to know what I was cackleing about!

Title: Re: Interesting?
Post by: Perry on March 15, 2017, 06:22:15 pm

Canso is a beautiful little place that at one time was a thriving fishing community, it had a huge fish plant, etc. Hard times in the fisheries took its toll on Canso like so many other fisheries based towns. It just lost its Town status a year or two ago. It is still extremely well known for Stan Fest, a huge gathering of folk singers and stuff held each year in honour of Stan Rogers the singer who died at age 33 many years ago when a plane caught fire in on the ground in Cincinnati.
He was a powerful singer, and he liked his rum (LazyBkpr). :) :D
His songs tell incredible stories!
 
"Barrett's Privateers" shanty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0CvSIhF_tA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT-aEcPgkuA

This last song is a tribute to all the maritimer's who had to go West to work in the oil patch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ZiixkruCY

Title: Re: Interesting?
Post by: LazyBkpr on March 17, 2017, 09:54:30 pm

The Mary Ellen Carter.. I have heard that song before...   It was hard to listen to it, because the gentleman in the first part of the middle clip sounds like he is from up Maine..  why was that hard?  because I spent 17 years with folks that talked like that and they all told me I talked weird!   ;D

Title: Re: Interesting?
Post by: Perry on March 18, 2017, 08:23:52 am

Ya know, when I watch that clip of the boys around the kitchen table singing Barrett's Privateers, why is it that I would have not been surprised at all to have seen you sitting there? :D
Stan was actually very popular in the US as well.

Title: Re: Interesting?
Post by: LazyBkpr on March 18, 2017, 11:48:03 am

hehe! I'd have been honored to have been there. Stan sounds Irish when he sings sometimes. very much so in that first clip.