Short hops 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…
The Other Things 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…
Short hops A walk in the park: Coaticook Gorge, Foresta Lumina, Charles de Lint, and us 24 Sep 201824 Sep 2018 You just have to pay attention. If you don't, you'll miss them, or see something else — something you expected to see rather than what was really there. Faerie voices…
Short hops A walk in the park: The devil at the Forges du Saint-Mauricie 17 Sep 201818 Sep 2018 The retelling of a legend from the historic Forges in La Mauricie is part of an occasional series exploring North America’s national, provincial and state parks. The call was as common along…
Short hops A well-travelled man and a dog named Big, surrounded by friends 10 Sep 201830 Aug 2018 CUSHING, Que. — The dog’s name is Big. He is black and white with a head the size of a five-pound bag of potatoes. We aren’t out of the car…
Summer The Perseids, a wedding party, and a man named Danny 13 Aug 201813 Aug 2018 TRÉCESSON, QC — We arrived in Amos after dark and under cloudy skies the night the Perseid meteor shower peaked. It had taken us nine hours to do a seven-hour…
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