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23Apr 202023 Apr 2020
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Tales from isolation: Working, learning, living

When the schools closed in Montreal, my wife and our youngest child moved to the countryside, where winter lasts till…

12Feb 201912 Feb 2019
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Bubby faced every challenge with head held high, back straight

We lost our Bubby last week. In a hotel in her hometown Winnipeg, my mother-in-law sat on one of the…

30Jan 201930 Jan 2019
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Fernandina and St. Augustine are in a battle for the ages

My favourite sort of gossip is the kind people spill about their home towns. Sometimes it’s the traditional kind of…

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Serene beauty of Mount Moriah Cemetery slowly resurrected by volunteers

12 Jan 201911 Jan 2019
12The earth is trying to take back Mount Moriah. So, too, is a passionate group of volunteers who are slowly, plot by plot, clearing brush and tangles of vine from…
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Eastern State Penitentiary: A penal system abandoned, a prison left in ruin

7 Jan 20196 Jan 2019
The air is stagnant, though the doors are open. It’s cool, and the kind of silent you don’t realize till someone points it out to you. The absence of sound…
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The day the carousel was desegregated

3 Jan 20193 Jan 2019
Sharon Langley is wearing a white cotton dress with a big rounded collar and a shiny ribbon. She has matching white booties that are topped by folded-over socks. She’s only…
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Pumpkinferno and other after-dark near-adventures in Cornwall, Ont.

23 Oct 201823 Oct 2018
CORNWALL — There are times you go looking for adventure, and times when adventure finds you. And there are times when you spend an entire night skirting adventure and looking…
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Rainy-day activity: Popping tags n’ thrifting

15 Oct 201815 Oct 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes My grandpa was known to spread out the classified section of his Saturday-morning newspaper and carefully circle each interesting-sounding garage sale. I imagine he’d put on a bolo and…
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Abandoned attraction: A peek inside Woodleigh Replicas

8 Oct 20188 Oct 2018
We were teenagers the first time we visited Woodleigh Replicas. The last time, we had a preteen. The past 30 years have not been as kind to Woodleigh as they…

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