Illustrating a story of John's mother Marion (Johnston) Porter, a painter.
Peggy's Cove Photos
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Marion's Peggy's Cove Story. >>>
Marion's Paintings.
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Her Brother George - Writer, Poet, Filmmaker.
In 1937 Marion Johnston's and Grace Whiten's Peggy's Cove Tea Room and Craft Shop was the first public art gallery or studio in the east coast fishing village of Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. They rented an abandoned shack with a dramatic history and future. Read the whole story here.
Grace Whiten and Marion Johnston at their Peggy's
Cove Tea Room and Craft Shop.
Photo by Marion's brother George Johnston, July 4, 1937.
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Grace Whiten and Marion Johnston at their Peggy's
Cove Tea Room and Craft Shop.
Photo by Marion's brother George Johnston, 1937.
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William deGarthe's 1956 drawing of the shack used as his
first Marine Studio 1938-1964.
Reproduced from his book This is Peggy's Cove, with permission
from Agnes deGarthe.
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Central Peggy's Cove, Then & Now - Looking West in 1949 and 2000
8mm film panorama showing the first Marine Studio's
small shack on the road at centre.
This 1949 colour film by Marion's brother George Johnston
will be viewable here later.
Composite 8mm frame enlargement by John Porter, 2000.
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Central Peggy's Cove, 2000, by John Porter.
The second Marine Studio is the last remaining
building on the
end of the cove.
Across the road is Beales' Bailiwick Fashion &
Art Shop <<<,
in the location of
the first Marine Studio's small shack which was demolished
by a storm in 1964.
The shack was lifted across the road from the end of the cove by
a storm in 1898.
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Agnes deGarthe in the second Marine Studio, 2000,
next to the original 1850 counter from the General Store,
used to mend fishing nets in the Parliament House 1898-1937,
used in Marion's and Grace's Peggy's Cove Tea Room and Craft Shop,
1937,
used in William deGarthe's first Marine Studio 1938-1964, and
2nd Marine Studio since.
(photo by John Porter)
>>> Marion's Peggy's Cove Story. >>> Marion's Paintings.
>>> New Book of Marion's brother George Johnston's Poems.
>>> Marion's brother George's Memoir of their Parents, w/ Photos.
>>> Catalogue of George Johnston's 8mm & Super 8 Home Movies.
>>> John Porter's "Lost Porter Cousins", and Father's Physics Theory.
