Eastern Shore Cooperator

Oak Island Treasure
Load of Malarkey

Adrian Blanchette gives his take on the mystery of Oak Island and it's supposed treasure.

A Tour with a Master Gardener

I’ve admired Blair and Laverne Warner’s landscaped hillside on East Petpeswick for years. This summer, he took me on a walk over the grounds. He explained how over the decades they had transformed what was once a pasture, with a large vegetable garden, a greenhouse, multiple composting bins, a stone-walled pond fed by three streams with a stone-lined creek draining down to the road, a little hide-away pond in a sea of ferns where they once lost 100 trees to a hurricane, and a long row of roses along the road that grew from a 75 cent bunch of roses his mother bought long ago at Eaton’s.

Pirates Take the Ferry

Adrian Blanchette talks about how the Pirates of Jeddore took over the Halifax ferry.

Pirates on the Eastern Shore

An interview with Adrian Blanchette, former owner of the Salmon River Inn, on how he and his costumed motley crew went from a pirate-themed birthday party to a pirate festival five years later that drew thousands for a raucous parade in Jeddore that closed down Highway 7.