Most of us believe that if we were to become wealthy, we would have much more leisure time. Those…
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Highway departments undertook paving despite 1930 Depression
This column has touched on the subject of highway and road improvements during the 1920s several…
Queen of the castle
You know, sometimes I wonder how the Carpenter manages to control his manly urges when he’s…
Egremont farmer blamed hobo for burning his barn in 1930
Several columns over the past few months have dealt with an epidemic of barn fires in Wellington…
Fallen leaves
Oh, isn’t it fun kicking up leaves? Yep! But it’s not so much fun raking them up,…
Slap shot
The hockey boards are up in the backyard, Christmas lights are strung on poles high above, and my…
Ghoulish discovery of bodies in 1949 Mount Forest house fire
At about 10am on the morning of Friday, January 7, 1949 the Mount Forest volunteer fire brigade…
Ice cold
The Carpenter and I have been together a long time and, to his credit, he marks rather high on the…
Elora principal George Edgcumbe ended his career in disgrace
Members of Elora’s High School Board did not know much about George Edgcumbe when they hired…
Quast, Betty
Quast, Betty, nee Robinson. It was 20 past 12 noon on the sixth day of March. I was slumped in…
Rain, rain, go away
Rain, rain, go away; come again some other day. So rhymed the poetic selection of a simple little…
Rock solid
I begged. I whined. I offered to pay. I did everything I could to get the Carpenter to go to a…
Summer boredom
It’s not been a full week since school let out and already I have heard my children mumble…
Delusional thinking
In this era we have been mesmerized by delusional “thinking” – namely that taking…
A nightmare?
Every now and then some commentators come up with a nightmare scenario where technology displaces a…