Summer Walking the abandoned rail bridge of North Anson 1 Aug 201616 Aug 2016 NORTH ANSON, Maine Sometimes you have to put off spontaneity. Like the time I rounded a corner and there was the most amazing rocky river and around the next bend…
Summer Tantramar FM hosts a community over radio waves 29 Jul 20161 Aug 2016 AMHERST, N.S. The word eclectic is in their mission statement, so it’s no wonder I got a kick out of Tantramar FM. The sign on the side of their building…
Summer Intercolonial: The railroad that was almost a jewel in the Crown 23 Jul 201629 Jul 2016 AMHERST, N.S. I’m keen on the railroad, I tell people who ask, because of its role in building Canada, especially here, where Confederation could not have happened without this track…
Summer A walk in the park: Amherst Shore Provincial Park 22 Jul 201622 Jul 2016 Part of an occasional series exploring North America’s national, provincial and state parks. AMHERST SHORE, N.S. Probably the water doesn’t always smell like sewage. And maybe it wasn’t sewage after all. Maybe the…
Summer The puzzling house on Beatons Bluff 17 Jul 201623 Jul 2016 BEATONS BLUFF When I was a little girl, my Barbies’ Dreamhouse was made of shoeboxes and toilet-paper rolls held together with Scotch tape. On the edge of Nova Scotia, our…
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