New Helen Creighton web site

Subject: New Helen Creighton web site
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 02:19 PM

This recently in:

Helen Creighton fonds

Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management is pleased to announce the launch of a multi-media web page celebrating the life and career of Helen Creighton (1899-1989).

http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/creighton/

Remembered as one of Canada's best-known folklorists, Dr. Creighton was a pioneer researcher, collector and author whose career spanned sixty years, and whose reputation in the field is international. The prolific results of that career--textual records, photographs, sound recordings and moving images--are contained in Dr. Creighton's personal papers. Held by Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, this collection is one of Nova Scotia's most significant cultural heritage resources.

Dr. Creighton's professional interests ranged broadly and deeply across Maritime folklore and history, including extensive work within the Gaelic, Acadian, Mi'kmaq, English, German and African-Nova Scotian traditions. The archival record which she accumulated is rich in folk songs and ancient ballads, folk tales, dances, games, cures, proverbs, children's folklore--and, of course, the subject area for which she is perhaps best known, namely the world of the supernatural--ghosts, superstitions, witchcraft and buried treasure.

As an online resource, the web page leads to descriptions and content listings for the Helen Creighton fonds, and will thus introduce new audiences near and far to the results of her life's work. A highlight of the web page is a Virtual Exhibit, featuring over 50 photographs, sound clips and online documents, including early folk-song recordings and first-hand accounts of the supernatural.

NSARM gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from the Helen Creighton Folklore Society in the creation of this website.

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Unfortunately, as yet there the only sound clips online are one song that comes up on the cover page (with no note about what it is), and one ghost story at the end of the "virtual exhibit". However, there are many lovely pictures of Creighton and the people she collected from in the virtual exhibit. Also, you can see the full catalog of recordings that NSARM holds.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: New Helen Creighton web site
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 02:34 PM

There are more sound clips, but you have to look very carefully at the photo captions to find them. They're rather short, though.

Subject: RE: New Helen Creighton web site
From:
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 05:18 PM

I hadn't heard it was up yet. I know it's been in the planning stage for a good while.

Subject: RE: New Helen Creighton web site
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 07:33 PM

Oh, thanks for noticing, Malcolm, there are just a few, aren't there. The bars with the links for that are below the picture graphics, and they didn't show up in the space remaining from my Netscape and Windows toolbars... I missed 'em completely in paging through it.

~ Becky

Subject: RE: New Helen Creighton web site
From:
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 09:06 PM

Becky. The sound file is the Cherry Tree Carol sung by William Riley of Cherrybrook.

Subject: RE: New Helen Creighton web site
From: masato sakurai
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 09:22 PM

Becky and Malcolm, thank you. Here are links to sound clip samples.

'Nova Scotia Song' from Walter Roast of East Chezzetcook [the original "Farewell to Nova Scotia"]

'Cherry Tree Carol' from William Riley of Cherry Brook (which is used as the background sound on the home page)

~Masato

Subject: RE: New Helen Creighton web site
From:
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 09:44 PM

Can anyone use the Search function? I'm getting a "No Form Action Specified" error message.