No history can ever be complete - it lies by omission. Simply too much has gone on for us to nail it all down, and every person who has been a part of Gatherings past carries their own stories! So, since TimeLife Books has so far been unable to come up with sufficient cash to buy the publishing rights, what you’ll find assembled here is by no means a comprehensive history. Instead, it’s a collection of subjective reviews and eyewitness accounts gathered from various sources, and focusing on Gatherings of the six years past. It’s our hope that it will give the curious further insight into what happens each summer in that sunny field, and spark a few memories in the minds of those who were there.

If you wish to add your own story to this site, we encourage you to do so! We’d like to post your anecdotes, tales, thoughts, experiences both bizarre and sublime … pithy commentary or seven-hundred-verse epic to the tea bag you dropped in the fire, it’s all the same to us. The potential for haiku alone is enormous! So send ‘em in. We also welcome your corrections to this page.

Both can be e-mailed to us from the Contact Page, or sent to P.O. Box 36015, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3J 3S9.

The Gathering first took form in the thoughts of a single person, Lance, who recognized that his family’s homestead (over two hundred years old) could be made into a fine place to bring together people of the Earth’s faiths. Many others heard of his idea for the first time through a call for support on the White Cliffs of Albion, a Pagan BBS active at the time. From there it was but a short step to collaborative meetings at renowned Halifax coffee shop The Daily Grind. Come Spring, the very first crews of doughty volunteers took to the land, clearing the trails and reclaiming the then-wild field, using everything from lawnmowers to a scythe… and the rest is, um, history.

More history, coming soon!