Winter Lecture Series 2013
Saltwater Heritage: The History and Conservation of our Coastal Architecture to be presented at Beaconsfield
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You don’t know what you’ve got
‘til it’s gone. Never is that more true than when speaking about the
coastal architecture of Prince Edward Island. Our coast and the sea, and the
structures built along them define us. It is by this shifting margin of land
and water that we have lived, worked, traded, built, and played for
generations – yet, over the years, we have continued to lose this early
architectural heritage, which includes factories, stores, ship-building yards,
homes and cottages. Often this loss occurs through erosion, indifference, and a
limited understanding of progress. While some loss is unavoidable,
valuable traces can still be retrieved through records, research and
photographs, and the safeguarding of remaining architectural structures. All
this is possible providing we look out again – to the shoreline. Here, unique
architectural structures and landscapes speak to Island stories of
transportation and safe returns, of community life, as well as of industries of
today and of earlier Islanders.
To celebrate and conserve our
coastal heritage, the Institute for Architectural Studies and Conservation, in
association with Beaconsfield Historic House, invites you to join them for
the annual January lecture series, themed for 2013, Saltwater Heritage: The History and Conservation of Our Coastal
Architecture. The Institute has assembled a group of
specialists to explore stories of our connections with Island shores. Beginning
January 7, 2013, the series will be launched with Harry Holman’s Weeping Saltwater
Tears: Charlottetown’s Disappearing Maritime Heritage. The Director
of Culture, Heritage and
Libraries, sailor and former Provincial Archivist, will draw on his
extensive knowledge of the local waters and present an illustrated lecture
using historical and contemporary images to reveal the changes to waterfront
and maritime architecture and institutions.
On January 14, Carol Livingstone,
President, PEI Lighthouse Society and Josh Silver, Red Seal Carpenter and
Learning Manager, Heritage Retrofit Carpentry
Program, Holland College, will present Lighting the Way: History, Form and Function in
Lighthouse Conservation of PEI. Together, they will explore these iconic forms of
coastal architecture and the close relationships between their architectural
features and their varied designs.
Parks Canada Historian,
Dr. Monica MacDonald, will visit us from Halifax, January 21, to speak about
one of the most stately seaside summer residences of PEI, and national historic
site, in her illustrated presentation, Dalvay-by-the-Sea: A Historical Overview. She will look into the many lives of this former retreat of American
industrialist, Alexander McDonald.
Completing the series on January
28, Boyde Beck, popular historian, author, and Curator of History, PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation, tells the
fascinating story of Green Park and Beaconsfield, the former houses of
shipbuilders, James Yeo (Jr.), and James Peake (Jr.), and the industry that
made them in his talk, Green Park and
Beaconsfield — Two Shipbuilding Stories.
Saltwater Heritage:
The History and Conservation of Our Coastal Architecture, runs on
Mondays in January 2013 (7, 14, 21 and 28) from 7 pm, atBeaconsfield’s Carriage House.
Admission is open to the public by donation. Storm dates to be announced via
local media.
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