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Check out Kim’s work this fall on the North of 89 Studio Tour and at Holiday Treasures, Dufferin Country Museum.

I was hoeing the garden when Dillinger suddenly came around the henhouse, trotting along like he was on his way to the bank. He was sunburned and covered with dirt.

Our own highly selective “picks” of just some of the things that make life such a distinctive pleasure here in the hills.

Tom Deans loves coffee so much, he decided to roast it himself!

It is fair to say their discovery of a woman in the neighbourhood who traps raccoons, fixes floods, cleans the house and ploughs the driveway was also a revelation in its own way.

In the days before 
modern firefighting, 
nothing frightened 
a small community 
– or pulled it together 
more powerfully – 
than a major blaze. 
The 1947 Palgrave fire 
was one such case.

I cracked the gun open and the empty shot popped out of the barrel in a small cloud of smoke.

“Don’t tell Dad! Don’t tell Bethany! Stop telling everybody in this world!”

A Pentagram at the Alton Fair, from the Orangeville sidewalk and a who’s who at the Erin bank.

With this issue we go urban – or as urban as it gets in our small towns and villages.

Have a read of the full version in PDF. A wilderness lunch, culinary education, country pubs and vegetarian wisdom.

Have you heard? Here’s the local buzz on who’s moving and shaking in the local food scene.