A painting By Nova Scotia folk artist Maude Lewis that was discovered in an Ontario Thrift Shop as sold for 45-thousand-dollars at auction. The painting, titled Portrait of Eddie Barnes and Ed Murphy, Lobster Fisherman, Bay View, Nova Scotia was sold for nearly three times it’s appraised value. The painting was discovered in a bin at a thrift shop in New Hamburg, Ontario in March. Lewis lived much of her life in poverty in her one room house in Digby, suffering from severe arthritis and selling her artwork for just dollars a painting. She would achieve world wide recognition for her work only after her death in 1970.
Category: Sydney
Chunk of Glace Bay Coast Collapses
Residents in Glace Bay were startled on Friday after a large chunk of coastal cliff collapsed into the water below. While the coastal erosion around Glace Bay is nothing new, local residents tell CTV this is the largest chunk of land they can ever recall falling into the ocean. It’s thought that erosion along the shore line mixed with heavy rains caused the large chunk of land at the top of the cliff to collapse. The Cape Breton Municipality says they will be monitoring the area to ensure the situation doesn’t become more dangerous and unstable.