Summer 2011
Birth of a Protest
This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.
Melancthon Mega Quarry
by the Numbers
This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.
Reading Shakespeare in Mulmur
“Shakespeare is hard,” said Brian (quoting the Irish critic Fintan O’Toole) “but so is life.”
The Bard Visits the Mill
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls…
Step right up to see the amazing, zany, dark, chaotic and upside-down farce: The Comedy of Errors.
Brutus and Lou
The amazing but true tale of an innocent fish man, a loyal swan, a vindictive queen, and the triumph of true love.
Ways of Seeing
five artists | five subjects | twenty-five paintings
How many ways are there to paint a picture?
Baseball Memories
When baseball fever swept North America in the late nineteenth century, the good people of these hills signed on, but they embraced the game with a unique, local flair.
A Day in the Life of a Volunteer Firefighter
A simple “click” is sometimes all it takes. Somebody is having a bad day. That “click” is the emergency radio channel, XJI 799, coming on line.
Eat Your Heart Out, Dr. Seuss!
Alpacas like llamas, prudently dole out kisses. After a quick assessment, they’ll smooch you right on the lips.
Letters – Our readers write: Summer 2011
Letters published in the SUMMER 2011 edition of In The Hills magazine.
Washing, wages, wax and worms
A review of recent studies suggests many amoebae have sex! Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.
Pam Purves
Like all impressionistic art, soft-focus photography takes the obvious out of commonplace objects and draws attention to more fundamental elements.



