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Discussion of Jim’s family and work history.\n- [00:16:28-00:17:32] sustained silence\n- Discussion of meeting Alden Nowlan in the late 60s when Stewart was a university student and Alden Nowlan was writer-in-residence; spending time with Claudine and Alden\n- [00:23:55] cut in recording, returns to later part of conversation\n- [28:55-30:21] walk away from recorder to look at old photographs, difficult to make out speaking\n- [00:30:21-00:30:50] significant feedback from recorder\n- [00:30:50] conversation now taking place outside, can hear feedback from wind\n- [00:31:32] cut in recording, return to conversation indoors at later part of conversation\n- Ends mid-conversation"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558424629250,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":5.0248585},{"id":"8235","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/alden-nowlan-fonds"],"item_title":["Costello"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label on tape box: \"Costello\" and red \"Master\" sticker; label on tape, A side: \"Ralph Costello\" and \"Master\" sticker; label on tape, B side: \"Ralph Costello\""],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[1.23]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2046"],"creator_names":["Cook, Gregory, M."],"creator_names_search":["Cook, Gregory, M."],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/230841225\",\"name\":\"Cook, Gregory, M.\",\"dates\":\"1942-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Interviewer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Costello, Ralph"],"contributors_names_search":["Costello, Ralph"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Costello, Ralph\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Costello, Ralph"],"Performance_Date":[1996],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Memorex DB\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"Nowlan_MsC_301_1.23\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T01:02:26\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"2.01 GB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1996-05\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Date taken from creation dates listed for item level descriptions in archival finding aid for the Alden Nowlan fonds Item number 1.23\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Starts mid-conversation with Ralph Costello at his home\n- Talking about archive in Calgary, meeting Alden Nowlan in the 1960s, Alden Nowlan and Fred Cogswell when Costello was newspaper publisher in St. John. Discuss early days of Alden Nowlan’s writing and his years in the newspaper business. 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Begins with extended biography of Alden Nowlan, his life, childhood, and poetry.\n- [00:01:26] Alden Nowlan discussing his family/childhood\n- [00:02:49] clip of Norris Hayword, a friend of Alden Nowlan’s from Hartland, NB; Alden Nowlan and Hatfield spent a great deal of time with Hayword\n- [00:03:35] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:04:40] clip of Hayword\n- [00:06:07] clip of American poet Robert Bly. Alden Nowlan’s poetry was first picked up in American little magazines and journals. - [00:06:50] Bly reads Alden Nowlan’s poem “Weakness”.\n- [00:08:08] clip of Ralph Costello, editor of Telegraph Journal at the time of Alden Nowlan working there.\n- [00:08:39] Alden Nowlan reading his poem “Britain Street”\n- [00:11:00] clip of David Adams Richards, novelist and student of Alden Nowlan.\n- [00:12:18] clip of Bob Gibbs, UNB professor.\n- [00:13:12] clip of Alan Donaldson, UNB professor.\n- [00:15:35] Alden Nowlan reading his poem “The Night of the Party”\n- [00:16:31] clip of Gibbs\n- [00:17:14] clip of Richards\n- [00:17:38] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:18:06] Alden Nowlan reading his poem “A Pinch or Two of Dust”\n- [00:20:02] clip of Richards\n- [00:21:25] clip of Jim Stewart talking about Alden Nowlan’s past through the novel Various Persons Named Kevin O’Brien\n- [00:22:14] Alden Nowlan discussing his family and the difficulties of their relationship\n- [00:22:41] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:23:09] clip of Leo Ferrari, UNB professor\n- [00:24:17] clip of Gibbs\n- [00:25:59] Alden Nowlan discussing the founding of the Flat Earth Society\n- [00:26:51] clip of Hatfield on Alden Nowlan’s abundant tolerance\n- [00:27:12] clip of Ferrari\n- [00:27:40] clip of Gibbs\n- [00:28:35] clip of Richards\n- [00:29:02] Alden Nowlan reading “Ypres: 1915”\n- [00:30:31] clip of Ferrari\n- [00:30:59] Alden Nowlan discussing writing poems\n- [00:31:11] clip of Stewart\n- [00:31:24] clip of Richards\n- [00:31:58] Alden Nowlan reading “For Claudine, Because I Love Her”\n- [00:33:38] clip of Stewart\n- [00:34:35] Alden Nowlan discussing childhood home. - [00:35:06] Alden Nowlan reading “Blueberries, Strawberries, Winter Bean”\n- [00:36:18] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:38:20] Production notes."],"contents":["Unknown\n[00:00:01]\nReads \"Alden Nowlan, For His Own Amazement: A Feature Documentary\" from Maritime Magazine, Sunday June 24, 1984: Remembering the poet Alden Nowlan.\nRobert Bly\n[00:06:50]\nReads \"Weakness\" by Alden Nowlan.\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:08:39]\nReads \"Britain Street\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:15:35]\nReads \"The Night of the Party\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:18:06]\nReads \"A Pinch or Two of Dust\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:29:02]\nReads \"Ypres: 1915\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:31:58]\nReads \"For Claudine Because I Love Her\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:35:06]\nReads \"Blueberries, Strawberries, Wintergreen\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"The Rose and the Puritan (1958), Bread, Wine and Salt (1967), I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1974), The Mysterious Naked Man (1969)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558514806784,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":5.0248585}]