Profile of Ed Coleman

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• ED COLEMAN OUTDOORS: Shad angling and its history
  By Ed Coleman I don’t recall the name of the Air Force sergeant who, in the late 1960s, wrote about shad angling in the Annapolis River. In that ...
• ED COLEMAN HISTORY: Woodworth Planter reunion comes...
  In his chapter on the coming of the New England Planters in his Kings County history, Arthur W. H. Eaton notes that seven members of the ...
• ED COLEMAN OUTDOORS: Angling is a 'curious balm'
  Anglers are calmer, more meditative, than regular folks, say a bunch of scientists who have been studying stress and brain fatigue. Back up a ...
• ED COLEMAN HISTORY: Gone, almost forgotten: the CVR bus
  By Ed Coleman Beginning late in the 19th century, the Cornwallis Valley Railway connected the bustling Minas Basin terminal of Kingsport with the ...
• ED COLEMAN HISTORY: Saxon Street
  By Ed Coleman Saxon Street isn’t the longest continuous road in the county – Brooklyn Street claims that honour – but it’s historically ...
• ED COLEMAN OUTDOORS: Good news for waterfowlers
  By Ed Coleman I’ve often reported on efforts by wildlife associations and hunting clubs to have the waterfowl season extend into January across ...
• ED COLEMAN OUTDOORS: Good hunting - quality or...
  By Ed Coleman What’s the difference between a good hunting season and a season you’d rather forget? A friend who hunts pheasants without a ...
• Popular pepperoni and smoked dog bones
  The Village Meat Shop in Canning is renowned for its smoked pepperoni; I’ve had people tell me it’s the best you can find in the province. ...
• ED COLEMAN: Kentville train station barrels a mystery
  By Ed Coleman Of all the railway stations the Dominion Atlantic Railway built across Nova Scotia, one of the largest was located in Kentville. ...
• ED COLEMAN: ‘History’ in old newspaper clippings
  By Ed Coleman The clippings came from attics, basements and closets; some, I was told, came from the walls of houses being renovated or torn ...
• ED COLEMAN OUTDOORS: A magnificent buck deer photograph
  By Ed Coleman More than 30,000 Nova Scotians hunt deer annually; arguably, all of those hunters would’ve liked to have been in Bob Cote’s blind ...
• Bagpipes in the Annapolis Valley
  By Ed Coleman It’s difficult to imagine any major event or any celebration, ranging from blossom festivals and cider fests to exhibitions and ...
• ED COLEMAN: Glimpses of Edmond J. Cogswell
  By Ed Coleman Readers of this paper who follow my column will recall the name of Keith Barry of Edmonton, whom I’ve mentioned numerous times; ...
• ED COLEMAN OUTDOORS: The work of a bird dog
  By Ed Coleman At the bottom of a cornfield, where the uplands merge with the dykes, a farmer clearing debris on his land had deposited a huge ...
• ED COLEMAN: An old road to an old aboiteau
  BY ED COLEMAN According to the signs, Highway 341 ends at what is known locally as Jawbone Corner, which if one must be historically correct, is ...
• ED COLEMAN OUTDOORS: A look at the valley bulldog
  By Ed Coleman About eight or so years back, a friend’s very determined beagle, which was in estrus, escaped confinement, somehow scaled a fence ...
• ED COLEMAN: Searching for the Dry Hollow Road
  By Ed Coleman “Kentville, for a long time, consisted of nothing but the old Horton Corner and was composed of nothing but Main Street, or the old ...
• ED COLEMAN OUTDOORS: Signs point to waterfowl season
  BY ED COLEMAN A few days ago, when I was sweltering in a heat wave, Cabela’s 2012 waterfowl catalogue was delivered by the postman, followed a ...
• ED COLEMAN: Saluting Edith Quinn
  By Ed Coleman When Edith Quinn passed away June 22 in Guelph, Ontario, her obituary noted her “heart belonged to Nova Scotia.” Indeed, it ...
• ED COLEMAN: Soldiering behind the lines
  By Ed Coleman In the forward to his book, A Craftsman Remembers, Gordon Hansford writes that for every front line soldier engaged in combat ...
• ED COLEMAN: Hanged for stealing potatoes
  By Ed Coleman Are the courts today lenient with criminals? This isn’t an appropriate forum to discuss this question, but I will say that in 18th ...
• ED COLEMAN: Historic tale on gypsum schooners in the...
  By Ed Coleman Speaking at the monthly meeting of the Kings Historical Society recently, Joey St. Clair Patterson said he’s been working on a book ...
• ED COLEMAN: Bob Palmeter's Blossom Time China
  By Ed Coleman If you stop at the T-junction where Scott Drive meets Middle Dyke Road, north of Kentville, and look southeast, you can see ...
• ED COLEMAN OUTDOORS: Some notes on eating shad
  By Ed Coleman “I know I cursed getting them on me, but what’s a few ticks when you’re catching shad,” a friend said after spending an afternoon ...
• ED COLEMAN: Apple Blossom Festival discoveries
  BY ED COLEMAN “I surmise that Frank Burns – ‘Mr. Festival’ - being a newspaper man, would have many connections across North America,” Kentville ...
• ED COLEMAN: The egg on the face award
  When Fisheries and Ocean released an advertisement late last year on winter angling, it included a one-month extension of the ice fishing season ...
• ED COLEMAN: Connecting the dots
  This is the third column on the old plant that once bottled Pepsi Cola and Morris soft drinks literally in downtown Kentville. And thanks to ...
• ED COLEMAN: Giant cats – Legends of the Lucifee
  “I was interested in your mention of the lucovie in your last column,” writes Reg Baird of Clementsvale. It was called a Lucifee in this area.The ...
• ED COLEMAN: A night out with recycled rabbit
  “What’s recycled rabbit?” a friend asked. “I don’t know whether to try it or not.” “Taste it,” I said. “I guarantee you’ll like it.”We were at ...
• ED COLEMAN: Irish music from Kings County
  Did Francis O’Neill, an Irish police captain out of Boston, visit Kings County in the early 1900s to collect music and visit relatives? My father ...