Dorothy Lander's profile page

Dorothy’s hand and Monarch butterfly on Asclepias tuberosa

Dorothy lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia with her husband John Graham-Pole, where they co-founded HARP: The People’s Press (www.harppublishing.ca), a social enterprise, multi-media publishing house dedicated to the healing arts and arts for health equity.

Dorothy’s two careers at St. Francis Xavier University (StFX), first in Operations Management and then on Adult Education faculty, informs her “retirement” career as a writer, nature artist, and co-publisher of HARP.

Dorothy’s writing and artwork published by HARP are featured in the intergenerational storybook Hmmm – M the Humdinger along with art cards drawn from the botanical collages for Hmmm. Elder John R. Prosper and Dorothy Lander’s joint memoir, Mi’kmaw Fiddler Joe Marble Plays to St. Anne: A Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing Pilgrimage, was published in July 2022. Dorothy’s Rice Lake memoir, ReReading Catharine Parr Traill: Stranging the Familiar (Introduction by Elder Maurice Switzer) will be released on September 30, 2022, National Truth and Reconciliation Day, at St. George’s Chapel, Gore’s Landing, Ontario.

Dorothy can be found on Facebook, Linked-In, and Twitter.

This delightful book is fun for all ages-my 4-year­ old granddaughter watched and listened all the

way through and then went dancing and humming around the house.

'"Grandma, I did like the book"

https:/ /youtu.be/bwjYJHsWluk

As this book is being published, we are in tough times. This little story reminds us that we are

all special and inspires us with both the beauty of nature in the artwork and the beauty of the

human voice. As we preserve art, music, and especially beauty, humans will become a less

destructive species.

- Marilyn Manzer, music educator, Wolfville, Nova Scotia