Our Story Poles
The Grove Theatre is honoured to have collaborated with Mississauga Ojibway carver and painter R. Kris Nahrgang in the creation of three story poles which have been installed at the amphitheatre.
This spot will be a gathering place encouraging people to think of their neighbour and the wider world in another way: connected to one another, and to nature.
Nahrgang hand-carved the poles from local white cedar trees and included Indigenous carvings and universal symbols.
Indigenous Garden
Students from Langton Public School along with the Fenelon Falls Horticultural Society have planted an Indigenous Garden including Sage, Sweetgrass and Cedar.
Planting will continue with tobacco and more grasses along the edge of the embankment to border the large cedars in the forest behind the Story Poles. The Story Poles provide a special place for people to gather to read books, tell stories and learn about the history of the First Nations people that travelled and settled along our lakes and rivers in the Kawarthas.
Students will continue to tend to the garden and with the assistance of the Horticultural Society will learn about environmental practices and native plants to Kawartha Lakes.
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A Bear
Representing family and unity.
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A Medicine Wheel
Painted in four colours - red, yellow, black and white - representing the four colours of people. “We are all here and all one people” says Nahrgang.
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An Eagle/Eagle Feathers
“The eagle flies above us and stands between the real world and the creator and speaks to the creator and tells him how we are doing” explains Nahrgang. Eagle Feathers representing healing. “The world has come through a tumultuous time but is beginning to heal.”
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Theatre Masks
A Western symbol, but carved in the Indigenous woodland style, and therefore representing both cultures.
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Dragonfly/Butterfly
Represents metamorphism in life. A beautiful spot was generated from nothing. There is a need to make changes in the world that are necessary for harmonious existence.
