Autumn 2013

Our history, our drama, our comedy, our daily lives. Please join us for a two-day event featuring spoken word and musical presentations at the Dufferin County Museum & Archives.

As part of our 20th anniversary celebrations, we’ll feature profiles of those who make up the In The Hills family.

This nationwide project encourages World War II and Korean War veterans to tell their stories to ensure their memories will be preserved for generations to come.

Three generations of a Caledon farming family travelled to 
Europe to retrace the steps of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion 
during WW II.

To a 13-year-old Orangeville boy in September 1945, news that the father he hadn’t seen in four years was on his way home from the battlefields of Europe was cause for high excitement.

For Canadian boys passing through England during World War I, the Perkins Bull Hospital for Convalescent Canadian Officers offered family warmth and the comfort of “home sweet home,” something all of them desperately needed.

The friendship among graduates of the old ‘school on the hill’ has stood the test of time.

The Headwaters Arts Festival Show ~ A preview of this year’s show September 20 to October 6

For a busy Caledon art conservator, delicately recapturing the truth of an artist’s vision is a calling that combines art and science.

“I knew him more from his Countryside Digest writings,” he wrote, “and they demonstrated his love of history, human nature, humour, and attention to detail.”

Andrea is particularly inspired by “how we attempt to master our environment via language, laying human-scale boundaries over cosmic-scale concepts and realities.”

Must party, must fill the Vial of Life, must eat and drink and tick off!