Acheulean Age

Been reading the book "An Old Woman's Reflections: The Life of a Blasket Island Storyteller" by Peig Sayers, recently. Peig was illiterate, and only spoke and knew Irish, called Gaelic at the time. And yet, her son's transcription of her stories and translation into English really conveys her warmth, melody, and idiom/myth phrases, in a way that with almost no other book I've read I feel not just...

HORSE! Courtney Stephenson joins Syf to chat about the Heavy Horse Show at the Calgary Stampede, July 3-6, 2026 - the oldest heavy horse show in all of North America, predating the Stampede, having begun in Calgary in 1886 at the Western Pacific Exhibition Dominion Fair. Local history? Horses? Oh yes, the perfect outing for any Acheulean Age Listener! Playlist: Jaiden Riley - Chickens In The Trail...

SHEENAH KO LIVE ON AIR MUSIC MAKING SESSION + INTERVIEW ahead of her SLED ISLAND performance TOMORROW Sunday June 21st at the Palomino (main floor) at 8pm!!! PLUS: MUSIC THAT SOUNDS HOW LAVENDER SMELLS Old hymns for new faiths Organic Electric Experiments 4/4 Waltzes Classical music for you kids & much, much more! Playlist: The Sour Patch Men - Love No More The Olympics - Western Movies Sea Of Let...

Sean and Connor join Syf to chat all things community, creativity, and collaborative storytelling! AARDCON, Calgary's greatest and best convention, founded by Sean and Connor to spotlight grassroots TTRPG players and makers (that's table top role playing games! and boy are there so many out there, for every kind of person!) is NEXT WEEK June 13, 10:30am-6pm, at the Scandanavian Centre, 739 20 AVE...

Was showing off the cool stuff in my room (trinkets, treasures, old records, old books, even new books) to some pals of mine. I've got a couple of nifty tote bags (ok brag!) and one is of a library card, not for a person but for a book, the recipe card that goes in the beige pocket, that one? Yeah! So I picked up what I thought was an empty toe, and it had some weight, I peeked inside, showed my f...