'Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than the magician ever spoke, or the spirit ever answered to in the strongest conjuration.'
-Charles Dickens
Truer words were never spoken. Perhaps truer still to those of us who live here in Cape Breton. Waxing romantic about our Island comes naturally. It finds its way into our hearts no matter if you are a visitor, a resident or have deep Island roots. It comes from the heart, and from the soul and from a longing for others to know the same love for our Island home.
Our attachment is strong and we talk of it with enthusiasm and tenderness. We share it lyrically in our songs and laments and melodically in our music. Even through hardship we tell it with sentiment in our stories. We feel it course through our veins when we smell the salt air, walk through a forest stand, or touch the soft mosses and damp earth. We feel it too when we greet our neighbours or embrace our loved ones and we pour it out from our hands into our work, and into what we make.
We have a deep, romantic love for Cape Breton.
In celebration of Celtic Colours International Festival, the Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design Gallery is hosting an exhibition called 'Romancing Our Home' through October 23, 2010, 10am to 4pm Mon-Fri, Saturday 12-4pm.
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