One stormy November evening on SGang Gwaay Tansy spent some time with one of the other boardwalk builders: Paul Rosang, a Haida artist who uses traditional tools and inherited designs.
Tansy and her Favourite Photographer were involved in the trail-building on SGang Gwaay, but their main purpose was to monitor for any potential impact to the cultural site.
Tansy and her favourite photographer and the rest of the work crew stayed in the watchman’s cabin on SGang Gwaay. They often walked through the old village on the way to or from work…
Jane is pleased with herself – she has made a giant Stollen to help the Quimper Hittys celebrate Stollen day, which happens in Dresden every year on the Saturday before the second Sunday in Advent. The celebration is in remembrance of both the Butter Proclamation of 1491 in which the pope decreed that the bakers of the city could use butter instead of oil in their cake-making; and also the making of the first giant stollen in 1730 which used 3,600 eggs, 326 churns of milk and 20 hundredweight of flour.