Funky "non-museum" Finds
While searching for the 25 funkiest things at Nova Scotia's Museums, the Funky Museum
Roadshow came across many funky people and places.
Nova Scotia's Funky Eats and Sleeps!
As part of Discover Tourism Month, the Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia
coordinated places to dine and rest for the road-weary Funky Museum Roadshow crew on their
madcap, nine-day tour of 43 museums in Nova Scotia. Here are the top three funkiest
accommodation and meal providers that delivered unique experiences combined with world-famous Nova Scotian hospitality!
Funky Food!
The Funky Museum Roadshow crew was spoiled with tasty treats from Nova Scotia's generous
restaurants and road-side stops. Here's the Funky Crew's top three picks for unique dining:
Pettipas Market, Auld's Cove
Funky facts: Charismatic owner John Pettipas is certainly funky! And the food's great too!
Hôtel de la Marine, Fortress Louisbourg
Funky facts: Your only utensil is a spoon! Experience dining ways of by gone days!
The Lobster Shack, Jeddore
Funky facts: Eat excellent "chock full o'seafood" chowder, see the "big, bigger and biggest" live lobsters, and have fun with seaweed and lobster boxer shorts!
The Funky Museum Roadshow folk slept here!
While travelling Nova Scotia, catch some "zzz's" at these hospitable accommodation providers:
Ship's Railway Cottage, part of the Amherst Shore Country Inn
Funky facts: Intriguing cottage history, water-front property, spacious & beautifully decorated rooms. (The Laceby family also owns the elegant and funky Blomidon Inn, Wolfville.)
Camilla Peck's and MacLeod's Bed & Breakfasts, outside Louisbourg in Catalone
Funky facts: Scenic surroundings, breakfasts fit for a king, a "home away from home".
Highland Heights Inn, Iona
Funky facts: Spectacular view of Bras d'Or Lakes, tasty food, friendly folk, traditional tunes.
A big thank-you also goes out to these generous meal and accommodation providers who
generously provided the Funky Museum Roadshow crew with places to eat and sleep between
June 4th - 12th!
Mabou River Hostel, Mabou
Clair's Café, D'Escousse
Wandlyn Inn, Bridgewater
Rodd Grand Hotel, Yarmouth
Secret Garden Restaurant, Annapolis Royal
Blomidon Inn, Wolfville
Funky Students!
Nova Scotia's students know what's funky! As adventurer Garry Sowerby travelled the province, hundreds of students shared their funkiest museum experience, funky heritage facts and showcased their creative talents at Funky Museum Roadshow events. It was difficult to choose from the many smiling faces that participated, but these three groups of students made an impact as the funkiest school groups in the province! Congratulations to the following funky student groups, who each won their choice of a publication from the Nova Scotia Museum Publication Catalogue for their school library:
Bass River Elementary School
Heather Teasdale's class from Bass River Elementary School got Garry Sowerby and the Funky Museum Roadshow Crew off to a funky start during the kick-off event at the Museum of Industry. These talented students sang Red Cloud, a song written for the occasion by Joan Young-Maltby, to the tune of the elementary school favourite I'm an Nut!
RED CLOUD
She's a Volvo, her name is "Red Cloud"
She's going to visit an important crowd:
Travelling to museums all over N.S.
Where she goes next...
Is for us to guess:
CHORUS:
Down to Yarmouth...click, click
To Grand Pré...click, click
Bridgewater, Springhill, Parrsboro...WHAT A TRIP!!!
Her driver's name is Garry Sowerby:
He loves to drive her...quite quickly!!
They'll go to museums all over N.S.
Where they go next...
Is for us to guess!
CHORUS:
To Glace Bay...click, click
Baddeck...click, click
Antigonish, Sherbrooke, Pictou...WHAT A TRIP!!!
We are students of Bass River Elementary:
We'll follow Red Cloud and Garry Sowerby
We wish them luck on their trip in N.S.
To museums, which are so important to us.
CHORUS:
Halifax...click, click
Annapolis...click, click
Sydney, Truro, New Glasgow...WHAT A TRIP!!!
(Repeat three choruses)
Uniacke District School
A colourful parade of waving kites greeted the Funky Museum Roadshow at Uniacke Estate Museum Park. Adventurer Garry Sowerby and wife Lisa Calvi were all smiles after receiving their very own hand-crafted, funky kite from the Uniacke District School Grade 5 Class. Thanks to all students who creatively crafted this commemorative kite and joined in the old-fashioned games fun on the museum grounds!
Yarmouth Central School
Not only did Jim Rideout's Grade Four French Immersion class from Yarmouth Central School creatively adapt historic sea shanties to reflect Garry Sowerby's 'round the world adventures, they also towed his record-setting Volvo, Red Cloud, away from the Yarmouth County Museum while singing their version of "Haul Away, Joe". This hard-working group of students is funky!
HAUL AWAY, JOE
(sea shanty adapted by students in Grade Four French Immersion)
Sowerby is the king of cars, the book of records tol' me
He's a rollin' stone, he drives & drives, he never will go mouldy,
(Chorus) Garry haul away, we'll haul the Volvo
Garry found a new Volvo, and it was very pretty
He started up that little car, it purred just like a kitty
Nova Scotians built that car, it soon would bring us fame
Garry loved that Volvo, the Red Cloud was its name.
He drove that Volvo 'round the world to many diff'rent places
It took him 77 days an' he met lots of faces.
Garry is a man of skill, we knew he wouldn't give in
In many adventures he did drive , the Red Cloud saw him though 'em.