Award-winning playwright and author Lance Woolaver, born and raised in Digby County, was greeted in Cornwallis by a local relative, Elizabeth Woolaver (left) of Bridgetown, and Kathy Nicholson of Young’s Cove. Woolaver holds a copy of The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis, the first edition of which sells for about $500. (HEATHER DESVEAUX)