The Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax, Nova Scotia, site of our conference

Conference co-chairs Nancy and Valerie with Barbara, opening remarks at Welcome Reception

Fiddler, Anthony Rissesco, playing east coast tunes during the reception

Thanks to Gael Spivak for this photo of me at Exclamation Mart with my book

Conversations during Exclamation Mart with Adrienne Montgomery

A pleasure to see Frances Peck again and to learn that she was born in Cape Breton and is a Maritimer at heart

Banquet table setting, then a  delicious dinner

The Oops Awards for most humorous, most expensive and other kinds of errors, by James Harbeck

Sitting around the banquet table and chatting, left to right, Patricia Morris McDonald and Moira Langton, members of the Halifax EAC group who put on the conference

Banquet table, left to right: Joanna, Vanessa and Greg

Members of the Black Rum Band: Adele, Carolyn (moi!), Nancy, Ann, Valerie, Jacquie, Moira, Daphne and Patricia

Song lyrics adapted by Daphne from an old Maritime song. No rum or blueberries in site! Thanks to Helena for sharing your suite for our practice sessions.

This photo of the band, Traci Williams, by permission.

I had the pleasure of  meeting Sheree Fitch and introducing her session. We did not plan to coordinate our clothing colours, but  apparently we both like blue.

An attendee took our photo with my camera.

And the SV Mar that took us on an evening cruise in Halifax Harbour on the last day of the conference

Photos on this blog by C. Wilker, unless otherwise noted

Coming soon: On the town, sightseeing in Halifax