{"id":173,"date":"2019-05-30T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T16:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/geolab\/?p=173"},"modified":"2020-10-02T12:40:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T15:40:55","slug":"newsy-notes-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/geolab\/2019\/05\/30\/newsy-notes-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsy Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Newsy Farm Notes (later just Newsy Notes) was a column written by Islander Blythe Hurst under the pen name \u201cAgricola.\u201d It was published by The <em>Guardian<\/em> PEI newspaper (then known as The Guardian of the Gulf or The Charlottetown Guardian) in the mid-20th century. This column covered a large variety of topics, including farm news, nature profiles, historical tidbits, tips and tricks, and some opinion pieces among other things. It was fairly popular, and ran for four decades, from the 1920s-1960s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hurst was a source of botanical knowledge for Islanders, and his column and other publications represent a valuable collection of local ecological knowledge from the early twentieth century. He immigrated to PEI in the 1910s, living in Brackley from 1930 until his death in 1951. Hurst, was the author of <em>A New Flora of Prince Edward Island<\/em>, published in 1941 by the Guardian and available in full text on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/islandlives.ca\/islandora\/object\/ilives%3A153550\">Island Lives<\/a>. In her history of Brackley Beach Women&#8217;s Institute, Ellen Cudmore writes that local residents \u201cwho had a rare or unidentified insect would travel from all across the Island to consult Mr. Hurst. He had insects and butterflies pinned, identified and mounted in green velvet show cases enclosed in glass. He also had an extensive library and would search his reference books until he found a satisfactory answer for each inquiry.\u201d<a href=\"\/\/9568F26C-477B-40D1-ACC8-CE2A4FA5119C#_ftn1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep checking back, as we will be uploading some <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/geolab\/category\/newsy-notes\/\">excerpts<\/a> from the column!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The text used for Newsy Notes excerpts comes from the Island Newspapers digital collection <a href=\"http:\/\/islandnewspapers.ca\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/\/9568F26C-477B-40D1-ACC8-CE2A4FA5119C#_ftnref1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0Ellen C. 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