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Summer 2011

Birth of a Protest

Jun 16, 2011 | Tim Shuff | Environment

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

Jun 16, 2011 | Tim Shuff | Environment

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

Jun 16, 2011 | Cecily Ross | Back Issues

“Shakespeare is hard,” said Brian (quoting the Irish critic Fintan O’Toole) “but so is life.”

The Bard Visits the Mill

Jun 16, 2011 | Michele Green | Back Issues

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

Jun 16, 2011 | Jeff Rollings | Back Issues

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

Jun 16, 2011 | Signe Ball | Back Issues

five artists | five subjects | twenty-five paintings
How many ways are there to paint a picture?

Baseball Memories

Jun 16, 2011 | Ken Weber | Leisure

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

Jun 16, 2011 | Brandon Muir | Back Issues

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!

Jun 16, 2011 | Monica Duncan | Back Issues

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

Jun 16, 2011 | In The Hills | Back Issues | Departments | Letters, Our Readers Write

Letters published in the SUMMER 2011 edition of In The Hills magazine.

Washing, wages, wax and worms

Jun 16, 2011 | Douglas G. Pearce | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | Departments | Environment

A review of recent studies suggests many amoebae have sex! Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.

Pam Purves

Jun 16, 2011 | Signe Ball | Artist in Residence

Like all impressionistic art, soft-focus photography takes the obvious out of commonplace objects and draws attention to more fundamental elements.