The natural and cultural heritage of Newfoundland in songs, stories, and color slides. Lynn's first heritage interpretation program in 1986, the catalyst for her M.S. thesis in human/environment geography, and the genesis of the Crosscurrents concert series. 1988 winner of the Tree of Learning Award for excellence in environmental education from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Songs of the inshore fishery, then and now. A successor to the original Crosscurrents program, presented as a Sea Music Symposium at Mystic Seaport in 1997. Fisheries songs continue to be a core theme in Lynn's sea music repertoire.
Lynn braids together working chanteys from the age of sail, flowing ballads of love and loss at sea, and environmental education in marine ecology.
From 2000-2004, Lynn was captain and stage manager for the Boston Folk Festival Chanteyboat. Think of the Chanteyboat as a dance stage for singers. Your crew of experienced "chantey callers" is out here on the waves, in the wind, to get YOU singing. In the tradition of legendary chanteyman and Outward Bound boatswain Stan Hugill, our goal as leaders is to unite each Chanteyboat in working song, as a direct experience of Boston Harbor and our New England maritime heritage. "We are crew, not passengers." (Outward Bound)
A circumpolar exploration of Arctic cultural traditions.
Where is true North? Sight along your home line of longitude: what you see depends on where you stand. The songs and stories collected in tonight's program are distillations of firsthand experience of life in the North, following the logo of Dartmouth's Institute of Arctic Studies around its circle of Arctic nations. The ICARP conference is about discovering common truths, and about appreciating different perspectives, on the Arctic. If the definition of genius is to hold two conflicting truths in the mind at once, then the Arctic has a great deal to teach us about the genius of place, toward a deeper understanding of the place where all the lines of sight converge. There, in the mind's eye, is true North.
