Summer 2011

This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.

This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.

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

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls…
Step right up to see the amazing, zany, dark, chaotic and upside-down farce: The Comedy of Errors.

The amazing but true tale of an innocent fish man, a loyal swan, a vindictive queen, and the triumph of true love.

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

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 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.

Alpacas like llamas, prudently dole out kisses. After a quick assessment, they’ll smooch you right on the lips.

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

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

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