Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 23

The Society\u27s Annual Meeting was held on Saturday, June 12, at the Memorial Union on the University of Maine (Orono) campus. The morning session was devoted to the business meeting, the minutes of which are summarized elsewhere in this Newsletter, followed by an Open House at the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History. In the afternoon, there were three short presentations on the general topic, Folklore Field Work in the Maritime Provinces. Carole Spray of Fredericton, N.B., spoke on Collecting Folklore in New Brunswick: An Amateur\u27s Experiences ; Catherine Jolicoeur of the Centre Universitaire, Saint-Louis-Maillet, Edmundston, N.B., spoke on Collecting Acadian Legends: How I Began, Where I\u27ve Been, Where I\u27m Going. And Cora Greenaway of Dartmouth, N.S., spoke on Painted Walls in Nova Scotia, illustrating her talk with a series of slides. After a short break for coffee there was a showing of From the Heart: Canadian Folk Artists, a C.B.C. video presentation profiling fifteen Canadian folk artists. This presentation came through the courtesy of C.B.C. and the Producer Director, Donnalu Wigmore

Landscape Architecture Education at QIT/QUT – Stories from the first 50 years

This is a compilation of information gathered during the LA50QUT Project to commemorate 50 years of Landscape Architecture education at QIT/QUT, the first Australian professionally-accredited education in the profession. Former and current students, staff, and others contributed articles and reminiscences; a chronology organised by decade is presented; relevant published material, details of individual studies, appreciated course projects, work destinations and projects of former students, and a listing of those involved over the five decades are also included. The Compilation concludes with a report of the 50th Celebration at QUT