That Time a Mother and Daughter Traveled from Moncton to Hollywood by Horse and Wagon.
On July 24, 1959, a 50-something widow from Shediac set off on the journey of a lifetime. Her mission: to meet Walt Disney and share with him a secret she…
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That Time Robert Frank’s Rolling Stones Documentary Didn’t Come to Fredericton
This is the story about how Robert Frank’s personal copy of his 1972 unreleased Rolling Stones documentary Cocksucker Blues ended up in a Halifax diner with one of the most…
That Time Six Fredericton Businesses Decided to Take The Law Into Their Own Hands.
In January 1970, six local businesses came together to form a vigilante group. No, this really happened. Matt Carter Once upon a time, Fredericton’s north side had the reputation of…
That Time Fredericton Art Galleries Came Together in Support of Nudity.
Skin in the Game. When a vaguely worded Parliamentary bill threatened the virtues of artistic merit, four Fredericton art galleries joined a national protest that eventually saw the bill put on…
That Time A Bathurst Police Strike Turned Main Street into a Drag Strip
When 71% of Bathurst’s employees walked off the job in 1979, hundreds took to the streets to party, get naked, and smash the biggest windows they could find. Matt Carter…
That Time a Fredericton Indie Theatre Production of MacBeth Won the Internet
This week we’re talking about Bard in the Barracks’ 2010-2011 production of the Shakespeare favourite MacBeth and how a filmed version of the show has become one of the most…