Best Cultural/Historical Feature

A cultural/historical feature may focus on art form, local custom, or an aspect of the past set in a particular place, e.g., attending a funeral ceremony in Bali, exploring the Roman ruins at Jerash in Jordan, or taking a backstage tour of London’s Victorian-era theatres

Best Cultural/Historical Feature • First Place

Award Year: 
2017
Award Recipient: 
Anne Bokma
Published in: 
United Church Observer
Date: 
January 1, 2017
Link: 
https://www.ucobserver.org/society/2017/01/prisonland/
Award Sponsor: 
Quebec City Tourism

Best Cultural/Historical Feature • Honourable Mention

Award Year: 
2017
Award Recipient: 
Lisa Kadane
Published in: 
The Globe and Mail
Date: 
May 13, 2017
Link: 
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/tijuana-guided-tours-open-a-window-i…
Award Sponsor: 
Quebec City Tourism

Tijuana guided tours open a window into the city’s culture and cuisine

"Try some crickets," Derrik Chinn says, holding out a little baggie filled with grillos seasoned with chili and lime juice. They're good, in a crispy-anchovy kind of way. Even my 12-year-old, weird-food-averse daughter, Avery, dips her fingers into the snack bag for seconds.

We're wandering through the Mercado Miguel Hidalgo in Tijuana's Zona Rio, a fashionable neighbourhood known for its shopping and restaurants. Chinn, our American-born guide, is pointing out the local flavours. He grew up in Ohio but...

Best Cultural/Historical Feature • Second Place

Award Year: 
2017
Award Recipient: 
Michael Fisher
Published in: 
Toronto Star
Date: 
June 29, 2017
Link: 
https://www.thestar.com/life/travel/2017/06/27/find-the-beating-heart-of-the-blu…
Award Sponsor: 
Quebec City Tourism

Blues and Soul

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE—Blind Mississippi Morris is rocking. The beat that booms from the bass drum behind him jolts his body from left to right, Blind keeping time, back and forth, as if he were a 250-pound, six-foot, denim-clad metronome. Chipper in his chair onstage at the Blues City Café’s Band Box, he’s grinning, ear to ear, the gap where his two front teeth used to be as wide and open as a pair of saloon doors on a Saturday night. 

One hundred years of Delta blues unwind inside Blind’s calibrated mind for music, and when he lifts the harp to his lips, he...

Best Cultural/Historical Feature • Honourable Mention • 2016

Award Year: 
2016
Award Recipient: 
Anne Bokma
Category Sponsor: 
Quebec City Tourism


Salem: The Town that Paranoia Built

August 19, 1692. Rev. George Burroughs, a Harvard-trained minister, stands on a ladder perched against a tree in Salem, Massachusetts, with a noose around his neck. He begins to say the Lord’s Prayer in a strong sure voice. His very life depends on a perfect recitation since it’s believed that real witches are incapable of saying this prayer without making a mistake.

Burroughs gives a faultless delivery. The crowd begins murmuring in concern. Some are moved to tears. But Burroughs is hanged anyway. Another Puritan minister, Rev....

Best Cultural/Historical Feature • First Place • 2016

Award Year: 
2016
Award Recipient: 
Anne Bokma
Category Sponsor: 
Quebec City Tourism

 

Salem: The Town That Paranoia Built

August 19, 1692. Rev. George Burroughs, a Harvard-trained minister, stands on a ladder perched against a tree in Salem, Massachusetts, with a noose around his neck. He begins to say the Lord’s Prayer in a strong sure voice. His very life depends on a perfect recitation since it’s believed that real witches are incapable of saying this prayer without making a mistake.

Burroughs gives a faultless delivery. The crowd begins murmuring in concern. Some are moved to tears. But Burroughs is hanged anyway. Another Puritan minister, Rev...

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