Morgan Mullin

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden,” wrote author Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1911. But if you look at the 2020 readers’ survey, you can see a garden—the Halifax Public Gardens—that became our whole world. Here, in the midst of fear and uncertainty, was someplace free, […]

In the Best Of survey we asked, “Before Covid, what did a perfect day in Halifax look like for you?” One reader’s answer? “I’m lying on my back on Citadel Hill with a good book.” This bookworm is not alone. When Mike Hamm first came back to work at The Bookmark, he expected things to […]

“Art helps us: In connecting with art, we connect with each other, we orient ourselves in time,” says sound artist and Nocturne 2020 curator Lindsay Dobbin. In a year where galleries were closed for months—making it hard to access visual art—Halifax’s creative class did what it does best and kept on connecting, kept helping us […]

In a time when, as we heard from readers in the survey, the social part of social media became ever more important, Halifax’s love for TikTok hit the mainstream. Two of the city’s stars on the video-sharing app gave us community contained within a backlit screen. Alicia McCarvell (@aliciamccarvell) might be the biggest local name […]