Back Issues

With the publication of five books in a single year, times are good for writer Hugh Brewster. And with his recent nomination for a Governor General’s Award, the times just got better.

With piercing eyes and haunting cry, so flies the lord of the midnight sky.

For Laurie McGaw, whether it’s famous portraits, award-winning illustrations, or life in general, one word covers it: Real

Old barn foundations find new life in the rural landscape.

For a lot of members, it’s more than just a hobby. There’s a connection to some memory.

Feast of Fields connects the links in the local food chain in an annual festival of fun and flavour.

International riders get good traction on their home turf.

Dowsers, druids, geomancers, mystics and a lot of big old rocks.

Paul Morin’s art and music are inspired by his travels among the world’s aboriginal peoples.

Places to find or lose yourself in the garden.

“What would you rather have, spiders sitting in webs where you can see them, or bugs wandering around undetected?” asks Tom Mason.

If there is one elemental resource we can count on in this region, it is rocks. Our practical forebears cleared them laboriously from the land, by hand and with horse power, and used them to build their homes, fences and barn foundations. Now, as the old barns crumble and former farmlands are “gentrified,” those rocks…