[{"id":"8221","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":["\"Remembering Alden Nowlan\" TNB. May 4, 1988."],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label on tape: TNB Special Event \"Remembering Alden Nowlan\" Wed May 4, 1988. Featuring: Janet Amos, Frank McKenna, Robert Gibbs, David Adams Richards, Richard Hatfield, John Plummer (Esso), James Stewart. Note in archival file: Dinner & tribute to A. N. preceding premiere of Lockhartville. Paul Hanna's dramatic adaptation of various persons named Kevin O'Brien. Letter to Apollonia Steele from Eric L. Swanick indicating gift of recording."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[1.1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2038"],"creator_names":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creator_names_search":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/61671170\",\"name\":\"Nowlan, Alden\",\"dates\":\"1933-1983\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Amos, Janet","McKenna, Frank","Gibbs, Robert","Richards, David Adams","Hatfield, Richard","Plummer (Esso), John","Stewart, James"],"contributors_names_search":["Amos, Janet","McKenna, Frank","Gibbs, Robert","Richards, David Adams","Hatfield, Richard","Plummer (Esso), John","Stewart, James"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Amos, Janet \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/16578312\",\"name\":\"McKenna, Frank\",\"dates\":\"1948-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Gibbs, Robert \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/68941629\",\"name\":\"Richards, David Adams\",\"dates\":\"1950-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/57710624\",\"name\":\"Hatfield, Richard\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Plummer (Esso), John \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Stewart, James\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Gibbs, Robert ","Richards, David Adams","Hatfield, Richard","Plummer (Esso), John ","Stewart, James"],"Speaker_name":["Amos, Janet ","McKenna, Frank"],"Performance_Date":[1988],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Realistic Supertape\",\"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\":\"AN_MsC_59.1.1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:44:54\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"739.82 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1988-05-04\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"Theatre New Brunswick\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada"],"Venue":["Theatre New Brunswick"],"content_notes":["Janet Amos (artistic director of TNB from 1884-1988) introducing the event, a play by Alden Nowlan but first some speakers. The night remembering Alden Nowlan.\n- [00:01:50] Premier Frank McKenna\n- [00:05:12] Amos\n- [00:09:38] Bob Gibbs, reads from a letter - [00:11:06] , discussion of The Wanton Troopers published posthumously in 1988. Significant laughter - [00:16:25] , applause at end - [00:17:25] \n- [00:17:30] female speaker (Janet)\n- [00:18:33] David Adams Richards\n- [00:19:33] Richards reads “Ypres: 1915”. Laughter - [00:22:25] , applause at end - [00:22:37] \n- [00:22:47] female speaker (Janet)\n- [00:24:28] Richard Hatfield, applause at his coming onto the stage. Laughter - [00:25:58] , and increases - [26:08-15] . Laughter - [00:26:47] - [00:30:30] - [00:34:50] , applause at end - [00:35:16] \n- Recording loops at - [00:31:12] \n- Amos introduces play the audience will be seeing tonight, Lockhartville written by Paul Hanna, adapted from Alden Nowlan’s book of the same name\n- [00:36:20] John Clemmer from Imperial Oil (sponsor of the play and the dinner)\n- [00:38:48] cut in recording. Returns to Amos.\n- [00:40:56] Jim Stewart, plays music; applause to his coming onto the stage. Applause at end - [00:43:22] \n- Event ends, recording catches end of event conversation."],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\n\"Ypres: 1915\""],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"The Mysterious Naked Man (1969)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558224351241,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.444Z","score":4.0916705}]