Summer 2010
Volume 17 Number 2

Stone Houses of Shaw’s Creek
Jun 15, 2010 | | Back IssuesThe stone houses of Shaw’s Creek instantly inspire romantic visions of a kinder, gentler time in a bucolic setting fit for a greeting card.

Grow Local
Jun 15, 2010 | | Back IssuesIn these hills growing your own food seems to come with a renewed sense of purpose. Monica Duncan visits several kinds of local vegetable gardens – some of them new, some long established – and talks with the growers.

Flight of the Bumblebee (and other pollinators)
Jun 15, 2010 | | EnvironmentIn “Flight of the Bumblebee” Don Scallen says we owe a debt of gratitude to pollinating insects for keeping food on the tables of the human race!

Imagining the Future
Jun 15, 2010 | | EnvironmentIt’s called community-based planning, and with it citizens hope to shape a sustainable future in the hills.

Hal Henry: An Artist’s Life
Jun 15, 2010 | | Back IssuesDufferin’s very own Renaissance Man, Hal Henry has a creative heart and gifted mind. Jeff Rollings profiles this “Daniel Boone meets Rhodes Scholar meets poet meets Delta bluesman.”

Dancing on the Edge
Jun 15, 2010 | | ArtsMichelle Grierson and Kerri-Ann Paradis Hutton use bold, contemporary dance to explore emotional and social boundaries. The result will be performed by a collective of young dancers this summer.

Citizens’ Brigade
Jun 15, 2010 | | Back Issues | Departments | Editor’s Desk | In Every IssueI admit to a certain kneejerk cynicism but I also have faith that things can change for the better when a group of informed and engaged citizens puts their concerted minds and goodwill to the undertaking.

Letters – Our readers write: Summer 2010
Jun 15, 2010 | | Back Issues | Departments | Letters, Our Readers WriteLetters published in the Summer 2010 edition of In The Hills magazine.

Fordlandia, Flying Machines and Formulas for Success
Jun 15, 2010 | | Countryside DigestAn American town in the Brazilian jungle, J. Paul Getty and Mark Twain. Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.

Hallie Watson
Jun 15, 2010 | | Back IssuesHallie creates images of her childhood home in Mono, where “life was a mysterious, fascinating, unexpected thing.”

Our favourite picks for summer 2010
Jun 15, 2010 | | Back Issues | Community | Departments | In Every Issue | Must DoOur own highly selective “picks” of just some of the things that make life such a distinctive pleasure here in the hills.

Cicadas
Jun 15, 2010 | | Back Issues | Departments | Environment | Headwaters SketchbookHeadwaters Sketchbook — Cicadas buzz-saw through the silence of a sweltering August mid-afternoon.