Back Issues
William Scobie Houstoun: A Daughter’s Memoir
My father taught me to appreciate the very much bigger and very much longer story of trees and the people who love them.
Colour & Passion
Autumn brims with colour in the hills, not only across the landscape, but in the studios and galleries of our local artists.
Rosemary Kilbourn: Light, Line & Lyricism
From the moment she moved into her rural hideaway, Rosemary Kilbourn began to interpret the landscape right outside her door and windows.
Empty plates
For many people in this community, need and desperation are a daily reality, and front-line workers at local food banks say the situation is growing worse.
Caledon’s Gypsy Connection
The versatile, friendly and compact Vanners are often compared to golden retrievers for their companion-animal qualities.
Natural Passions
But however ill-conceived the Melancthon quarry may be, the big question remains: how do we satisfy our voracious appetite for aggregate?
Letters – Our readers write: Autumn 2011
Letters published in the AUTUMN 2011 edition of In The Hills magazine.
Peacocks, oysters and rubber ducks
History traditionally has ranked alchemists with counterfeit artists, huckster quacks, snake oil salesmen, and witches. Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.
John Ashbourne: Green Man Series
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.”
Must do
A highly selective guide to the picks of the fall season in the Hills of Headwaters.
The Sausage King of Broadway Farm’s Market
Sausages that are fast becoming a popular option, even among Broadway Farm’s Market’s most health-conscious customers.
Sharing work across generations
From my position, lying in the back seat of the car, it always seemed to take forever to get to my grandparents’ house just off Victoria Park Avenue in Toronto.…



