Arts

Dream of your spring garden, solve a legal case, pursue your spiritual life, renovate your diet, or just bury yourself in a rollicking good tale.

When the weather outside gets frightful, make yourself a cup of hot chocolate, put up your feet and snuggle in for a delightful winter’s read.

Nurse Myra Bennett travelled by foot, horse, dogsled and boat, she provided isolated communities with their only source of medical assistance.

Here are the highlights from this year’s local music scene. Listen up!

Mr. Hearn shook his head. All of this made about as much sense as a trout in a rain barrel. “What are you kids doing out here anyway?”

A self-taught artist who began painting at an early age, Susan’s slightly naïve style adds extra charm to her nostalgic interpretations of rural life, which include scenes from here in the hills.

Consider giving a holiday gift as vast and beautiful as our Canadian wilderness – beautifully packaged and small enough to fit under a tree!

My father taught me to appreciate the very much bigger and very much longer story of trees and the people who love them.

Autumn brims with colour in the hills, not only across the landscape, but in the studios and galleries of our local artists.

From the moment she moved into her rural hideaway, Rosemary Kilbourn began to interpret the landscape right outside her door and windows.

The mysterious Green Man has resisted numerous serious, as well as more fanciful, attempts to satisfactorily explain its presence and meaning, but for Mono artist John Ashbourne, it symbolizes the relationship between “Man and Nature.”

“Shakespeare is hard,” said Brian (quoting the Irish critic Fintan O’Toole) “but so is life.”