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Powering Down

Blankets are shared and campfire conviviality fills the room. Winter campout is on – indoors!

Nov 21, 2011

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.

Nov 21, 2011

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.

Nov 21, 2011

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.

Nov 21, 2011

Natural Passions

But however ill-conceived the Melancthon quarry may be, the big question remains: how do we satisfy our voracious appetite for aggregate?

Sep 9, 2011

Letters – Our readers write: Autumn 2011

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

Sep 9, 2011

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.

Sep 9, 2011

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.”

Sep 9, 2011

Must do

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

Sep 9, 2011

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.

Sep 9, 2011

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.…

Sep 9, 2011

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.”

Sep 9, 2011