Celtic Colours International Festival celebrates the music stories, heritage, and welcome of Cape Breton Island. Here is what's going on, with several songs and tunes from musicians who will be appear...

Memories and connections

Autumn in Ireland: Advice, dreams, and resources for this quieter season, and how to decide if it's the right season for you to travel to Ireland.

Saint won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edie, a Catholic schoolgirl whose longshoreman brother is murdered. She went on to star in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest.

Otherworlds, places where connections between past and present arise, often come to mind around Halloween/Samhain. 11 stories and a song to go along.

Cornell University names Sally Yates, former acting U.S. attorney general and career federal prosecutor, to lead an independent review into how the school handled a former student's rape allegations.

YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman

Celtic Colours International Festival is a welcoming celebration of music, creativity, and community on Cape Breton. Community events alongside concerts...

Celtic Colours International Festival on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia celebrates Gaelic, Acadian, & Mi'kmaq culture, heritage, & connection through music

Hygge: what is this Scandinavian idea, and where you might find it -- and add it -- in your life? An exploration of the book How to Hygge by Signe Johansen

Celtic, Nordic, Baltic and other influences come shaped by the land and people of Denmark and expressed by Harald Haugaard and Helene Blum.

Former Lansdowne Church made accessible for close-up window tours

In Collaboration with the Irish Architecture Foundation

In the cities of Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva, 1,500 years of legends and history intermingle, the grand structures bearing testament to past kingdoms, the spread of Islam, and the first transcontine...

Thanksgiving in Canada: the autumn hoilday is celebrated on the second Monday in October and comes with its own traditions

Celtic Colours International Festival on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia celebrates Gaelic, Acadian, & Mi'kmaq culture, heritage, & connection through music

Explore Hispanic heritage and history connections in the US through place, story music, and online resources, for Hispanic Heritage Month &beyond.

What's NewOn Aug. 18, 2026, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brook L. Rollins announced that the proposed rule and draft environmental impact statement that recommends removing the 2001 Roadle...

Scotland's diverse riches in music: seven recent recordings to get you started on exploring, with stories told through song and tune in English, Gaelic, Scots.

Ghostly events in Smiths Falls and Dunvegan, fall fests in Manotick and Merrickville, a fashion sale in Gatineau and a walking tour in the Glebe.

A sailor, the sea, a song, and community

we’ve got our music...

Blue Mountain’s Lullaby is a song in Gaelic from Cape Breton in Nova Scotia in Atlantic Canada

we’ve got our music...

Music to begin your soundtrack for Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way, whether your journey is by geography or imagination. Altan, Cara Dillon, & more

Mail and stamps as history: a look at the National Postal Museum in Washington DC:connecting people across time and space

The Nova Scotia Archives

Robert Burns.

Memories and connections