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History traditionally has ranked alchemists with counterfeit artists, huckster quacks, snake oil salesmen, and witches. Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.

The mysterious Green Man has resisted numerous serious, as well as more fanciful, attempts to satisfactorily explain its presence and meaning, but for Mono artist John Ashbourne, it symbolizes the relationship between “Man and Nature.”

A highly selective guide to the picks of the fall season in the Hills of Headwaters.

Sausages that are fast becoming a popular option, even among Broadway Farm’s Market’s most health-conscious customers.

From my position, lying in the back seat of the car, it always seemed to take forever to get to my grandparents’ house just off Victoria Park Avenue in Toronto.…

Of the worshippers in Mono Mills he com­plained, “When they should rise, they sit; when they should sit, they continue standing.”

Soon we’re flying up the road. Had I worn a silk scarf, it would have been streaming out behind me.

Parrots in Purple Hill, Find the Flaw and Circular Arithmetic at the Inglewood Fair

“We want people to taste the bounty of the land that is threatened by the quarry,” says Stadtländer.

Our roundup of fabulous quality items produced by local artisans.

“He that looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.”
C.S. Lewis

Life is like that piece of dough; you need to work it until it becomes familiar to you.