New exhibit will celebrate career of N.S. folklorist
Posted Feb 1, 2019 11:07:00 AM.
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A new permanent exhibit honouring the life and work of a well-known folklorist is opening Friday at a museum in Dartmouth.
The exhibit at the Dartmouth Heritage Museum's Evergreen House will look at the life of Helen Creighton who collected and captured stories and songs from around the Maritimes.
Manager Terry Eyland told NEWS 95.7 Creighton first started out recording songs from fisherfolk before branching out to other communities.
“She started in 1928, and this is before most people in rural areas had electricity, it was before there was portable recording equipment, so she was writing all this down,” he explained. “It took a lot of work, and she made it into her career.”
Eyland says the Evergreen House has never had a permanent exhibit on Creighton and the work she did over a more than fifty-year period, although it was once her family's home.
A reception to mark the opening of the exhibit is scheduled for Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
