Need to take a break from COVID-19 stories? Check out some of these features about people in our community. Shannon Quigley has always loved history but she said it wasn’t until her first job as…
Engaging people in history
By Sue Tiffin Shannon Quigley has always loved history but she said it wasn’t until her first job as a summer student at a Parks Canada national historic site that she realized it could be…
Former area resident puts up painting to buy…
By Jenn Watt When he thinks of the Zion United Church David Chambers is filled with memories of youth and family. The building on East Road in Carnarvon was where he went to Sunday school…
Howe sees connections in Salvaged Remnants
By Sue Tiffin Tiffany Howe won’t be at her exhibition Salvaged Remnants at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery for the duration of the show but withdidactics on the wall showcasing her work the multidisciplinary artisttold the…
Words come easily for Minden’s prolific poet
By Sue Tiffin The first thing Beth McWatters does after sitting back down in the armchair next to the window in her living room from which she gathers inspiration as life outside happens is show…
Using the power of art for health
Despite an ocean separating the two countries Canadians and Australians have more in common than we think said Adriane Boag learning and access co-ordinator with the National Gallery of Australia. “A group of people who…
Hold on to your hats … Irish Mythen…
“I had no idea what to expect when this five-foot-nothing lady tookthe stage all smiles and twinkling eyes and guitar. Then she openedher mouth and out flew a voice that came straight from the Heavens…”That…
Self-published author welcomes readers to Bolfodier
By Darren Lum Nick Sutcliffe said The Kanta Chronicles represents the greatest accomplishment in his life. The Carnarvon resident’s epic debut novel is set in the fictional world of Bolfodier and spans two generations,…
Art lovers return for tour year after year
Carloads of people driving along scenic routes alongside trees bright and full with colourful leaves slowed as they approached Studio Tour signs dotted along the landscape throughout the county last weekend. The signs each marked…
Scrolling through hopes fears and dreams
By Chad Ingram An installment at the Minden Hills Cultural Centre explores the aspirations and inner turmoils of participants and asks community members to share pieces of themselves. Hopes Fears and Dreams is a project…
Studio Rose offers demonstration of unique pottery technique
Watching Wayne and Sylvia Rose work is an unforgettable experience. They stand outside their home and studio in the clearing of a peaceful wooded area covering their skin with long-sleeved shirts before opening a kiln…
Human fixes in natural landscapes
Have you ever felt compelled to support and aid something in nature? Set up a protection screen create a small roof put it in a box or wrap it with support? For example on the…
Frit and fusion at Ivy Cottage
By Chad Ingram It is partially the element of the unknown that keeps Joyce Pruysers-Emmink and Peter Emmink of Ivy Cottage Fusion Arts drawn to the art of fused glass. “There’s a lot of aha!”…
Life and execution of Private Harold Pringle subject…
By Jenn Watt Journalist Andrew Clark first started looking into the execution of Canadian soldier Harold Pringle following the Second World War because of a story told to him by his own grandfather who had…
Minden Pride's Burlesque Ball is going to be…
Organizers of Minden Pride Week’s Burlesque Ball are promising an inclusive end-of-summer dance party with “fantastic costuming fantastic performance art world class music world class DJing” – and some of Toronto’s top drag queen performers.…
Artists collaborate on island over found objects and…
Artists collaborate on island over found objects and garbage poems By Sue Tiffin Artists Anna Swanson and April White have come to Haliburton County from Newfoundland to take part in the Halls Island Artist…
Minden Hills serves a tea fit for the…
By Sue Tiffin The 200th anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria was celebrated at the Minden Hills Cultural Centre on May 18 with a morning and afternoon tea inside and outside of the Bowron…
Raisin the Root grows to nourish in Minden
By Sue Tiffin A mural covering one wall of a Bobcaygeon Road building is turning heads in Minden and leaving a bright image of locally-grown vegetables in the minds of passersby. Soon enough Nourished by…
Not enough student interest to run HHSS music…
By Sue Tiffin Anabelle Craig first began playing the cello when she was four. Nowadays the 15-year-old Grade 10 student plays the bowed string instrument every day. She wears a necklace that reads “my cello…
Museum marks 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth…
By Laurie Carmount Curator - Agnes Jamieson Gallery This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria. The life of the British monarch, who ruled over her global empire from age…
Peripheral Visions at Minden gallery
By Chad Ingram Minden’s Agnes Jamieson Gallery was packed for the opening of Peripheral Visions the evening of April 5. A juried exhibition featuring the works of 19 artists from throughout central and eastern…