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- Bob Chelmick, host of The Road Home, recently announced that he is preparing to move to Mabou, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
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Mar 22, 2022 · Bob Chelmick, host of The Road Home, recently announced that he is preparing to move to Mabou, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. We checked in with him on the same day that the moving estimator arrived at his cabin-in-the-woods.
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The Road Home offers a quiet cabin in the woods for...
- The Road Home
An hour northwest of Edmonton, Alberta, Bob Chelmick rises from a chair on the east-facing porch of his solar-powered cabin in the woods to greet me.
The Road Home offers a quiet cabin in the woods for listeners to enjoy; a place of refuge and discovery, rife with images that move the mind and the heart. Host Bob Chelmick offers poetry, songs, and reflections on his world of dogs, horses, birds and other subjects for a gentle adventure on the road we all share.
- Coming “Home” from The Bright Lights of News “Infotainment”
- What Came First: The Cabin Or The Road Home?
- Solar-Powered Cabin in The Woods
- The Road Home, Solar-Powered Radio
- What About The “P” Word?
As a young man, Chelmick dreamt of being a forester, he performed in a folk band, drove a Datsun 240Z and had “long hippie-ish hair.” After studying Radio and Television Arts at NAIT in Edmonton, he got a taste of his future at CKUA Radio, before becoming an accomplished news anchor. But one day, 20 years into his news career, he had an epiphany. “...
Chelmick’s solar-powered cabin in the woods was, “an escape. By day, the bright lights, the studio, the news, all that stuff. By weekend, the calming quiet of the country.” After a long search, Chelmick purchased a quarter section of forested land near Nakamun lake, about one hour northwest of Edmonton, Alberta. Chelmick’s getaway required the hard...
Chelmick started small, with an 80-watt solar module, powering the fan in his composting toilet. Solar was much more expensive then. Over the years the system was expanded several times. Today, it’s 3.4 kilowatts. Ten years after adding the battery storage system, Bob faced a dilemma. It was going to cost $10,000 to replace the batteries, so he dec...
“When I came with the title of the program, The Road Home,and put the proposition forward to CKUA, I thought of Sunday nights coming back from the lake after a summer weekend—it’s kind of a magic time, you’re weary and you’re looking forward to getting back into your life,” says Chelmick. “I wanted to integrate the things I love in my life most. Li...
The Road Homeis a multilayered weaving of story, music, nature, the cabin-in-the-woods and yes, poetry. Friends advised Chelmick to be “careful with the ‘P’ word, just call it spoken word” radio, they suggested. But Chelmick is an unabashed evangelist of poetry and proselytizer of his favourites, including: Mary Oliver, and Lorna Crozierwho, like C...
May 20, 2016 · This week on Green Energy Futures we travel to Nakamun Lake, Alberta to see Bob Chelmick's solar powered Cabin in the Woods, Bob's home and the mythical cabin behind the ground breaking radio...
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Bob lives in a cabin-in-the-woods, northwest of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with his wife, Janice Beaton, and the dogs, horses and occasional coyote or moose ( @bobnthedogs on Instagram).
In November of 2002, veteran broadcaster Bob Chelmick proposed a program that brought together a few of his passions: music, poetry, storytelling, and the quiet country life at a cabin in the boreal forest. He made the pitch to CKUA, the public radio network in Alberta, Canada that has, since 1927, had the courage to experiment.
