Ghost Town hunting on CBC The Afternoon Edition

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Ghost Town hunting on CBC The Afternoon Edition

January 25, 2012 by merlemassie

Blog posts not only get read, they get shared. Or so I’ve learned this week!

I received a lovely phone call from the producers of CBC Saskatchewan’s The Afternoon Edition with Craig Lederhouse. I will be interviewed tomorrow re: my piece on Saskatchewan Ghost Towns, and I’ve promised both SaskTel on Demand, as well as ActiveHistory.ca, that I will be sure to mention them both. Once the interview is finished, I’ll try to download the podcast here.

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on January 27, 2012 at 10:01 am | Reply Sean Kheraj

This is great news, Merle. Active History has certainly made you an active historian. I’m looking forward to listening to the interview. Good luck!
- on January 27, 2012 at 3:23 pm | Reply merlemassie
  
  Thanks, Sean! Actually, this is the third time that I have been interviewed on CBC Saskatchewan in the past couple of years — so ActiveHistory hasn’t made me an active historian — but I love being an active historian, so it makes sense to be a part of the ActiveHistory blog group!
on January 31, 2012 at 1:20 pm | Reply Gregg

Last week I heard your interview on CBC. I thought you might be interested in a project that I am working on with the Architectural Heritage Society of Saskatchewan (www.ahsk.ca).

Thanks to geo-modellers from Saskatchewan, Ontario, Newfoundland, and Australia there are now a few buildings in Saskatchewan that are showing up in Google Earth’s “3D Buildings” layer. The Architectural Heritage Society of Saskatchewan is hoping to encourage geo-modelling buildings that are special to your community. Geo-models can help residents and visitors understand your community in a way that maps and photographs can’t. The spring edition of WORTH will publish an article about the Model Saskatchewan project.

Please check out the Model Saskatchewan icon on the home page of the AHSK website. Also note that they have linked a news article back to your story.
- on February 1, 2012 at 8:02 am | Reply merlemassie
  
  Thanks! I agree — I think the 3D method really allows us to feel and, in a way, recreate what a town or village was like — this is fascinating technology.