Summer A walk in the park: Minister’s Island (ghost edition) 23 Aug 201419 Oct 2014 Part of an occasional series exploring North America’s national, provincial and state parks. MINISTER'S ISLAND, N.B. — There are ghosts at Covenhoven. I heard them. The spirit of Van Horne is…
Summer The madmen of York County Gaol 15 Aug 201412 Oct 2014 FREDERICTON, N.B. — As anyone who read the previous entry (wherein I spent a few days taxiing a herd of children in a minivan) might suspect, I spent part of…
Summer Fredericton, four car seats and a minivan 12 Aug 201412 Oct 2014 FREDERICTON, N.B. — Sometimes the call in the middle of the night isn't a prank or wrong number. Sometimes it's exactly what you fear a call in the middle of…
Summer Go tell it on the mountain 9 Aug 201422 Aug 2014 STEEVES MOUNTAIN, N.B. — I was testy because I hadn't wanted to drive all the way to Fredericton anyway and when Melani asked me to take an exit off the…
Summer The failed marriage of rail and sea 7 Aug 201415 Aug 2014 TIDNISH BRIDGE, N.S. — Meet Henry George Clopper Ketchum, a guy with a dream. While this 1800s railway man laid track and made a name for himself as far away…
Summer ASL, oralism and Alexander Graham Bell 5 Aug 201412 Aug 2014 BADDECK, N.S. — There's a lot more to this Alexander Graham Bell fellow than telephones. He was a lover of science who laid a fatherly hand on the shoulders of…
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