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Powering Down
Blankets are shared and campfire conviviality fills the room. Winter campout is on – indoors!
Show Us the Money!
There were new markets, an expansion in available goods, new opportunities and, above all, a new lifestyle: people here had become connected to the outside world.
Off-trail on Snowshoes
We’d warmed up with a short hike down to a kettle lake covered in untrodden snow. We couldn’t resist the temptation to make tracks, so we crossed the lake enjoying the silence and the warm sunshine.
A Puzzling Conclusion: Winter 2011
Window repair in Shelburne, Cattle Rustlers in East Luther, Something for the Kids at the Redickville WI, After School in Caledon East and Variations on a Theme in Palgrave.
Natural Passions
But however ill-conceived the Melancthon quarry may be, the big question remains: how do we satisfy our voracious appetite for aggregate?
Letters – Our readers write: Autumn 2011
Letters published in the AUTUMN 2011 edition of In The Hills magazine.
Peacocks, oysters and rubber ducks
History traditionally has ranked alchemists with counterfeit artists, huckster quacks, snake oil salesmen, and witches. Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.
John Ashbourne: Green Man Series
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.”
Must do
A highly selective guide to the picks of the fall season in the Hills of Headwaters.
The Sausage King of Broadway Farm’s Market
Sausages that are fast becoming a popular option, even among Broadway Farm’s Market’s most health-conscious customers.
Sharing work across generations
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.…
Bringing ‘The Word’ to the Wilderness
Of the worshippers in Mono Mills he complained, “When they should rise, they sit; when they should sit, they continue standing.”



