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(0)Rediscover your rural churches
Article online since February 12th 2010Except for the occasional wedding or funeral, church has become terra incognita for many of us. That, aside from any possible spiritual detriment, is a shame: churches – and here I'm thinking specifically of older, rural ones – are lovely buildings, singular in their ability to bring peace...
Walter Henn moves on again
Article online since January 22nd 2010A worm-picker: someone’s got to do the job, but it’s not what you’d want to as a career. So Walter Henn, as he’s done numerous times since, moved on from his first job in Canada to bigger and better things. Now, at 71, the guy who for almost 50 years has been a fixture of the Navan...
Krystyna just wanted to play
Article online since January 8th 2010Let’s be generous: her teachers were probably just products of their time. When Krystyna Szluinska-Sadej, a Navan-based tapestry and mixed media artist, was growing up in Poland, her teachers – and her family, for that matter – took her to task for not producing realistic art. Their tut-tutting...
Christmas used to be so simple
Article online since December 18th 2009Ask folks raised in the countryside about their childhood Christmas memories, and you’ll get as many variations as there are different shapes of snowflakes. Joan Rathwell remembers like it was yesterday the annual concert at S.S. No. 10, the one-room schoolhouse at the now-busy corner of...
A rare visit to Utopia
Article online since December 6th 2009Wound up tighter than a ball of baling twine, I stiff-legged it out of the house earlier this week for the morning dog walk. Family turmoil – the type that children of aging parents encounter and significant only to those caught in the emotional maelstrom – along with job woes and an incomplete...
Other News ( 6 to 37 of 78 )
- A rural education ( November 8th 2009 )
- The Pit ( October 24th 2009 )
- Peeking into Cumberland’s past ( October 11th 2009 )
- Fall ushers in new possibilities ( September 27th 2009 )
- Restoring the balance ( September 14th 2009 )
- A lesson in honesty ( August 28th 2009 )
- A bartender’s view of the Navan Fair ( August 15th 2009 )
- Upcoming Navan Fair brings back memories ( July 31st 2009 )
- Navan’s Little Market well-stocked for summer ( July 18th 2009 )
- Stories hidden in country graveyards ( July 5th 2009 )
- Vacant land and development ( June 21st 2009 )
- Thank God I’m a Country Boy ( June 6th 2009 )
- The hamlet of Leonard: a lesson in patience ( May 23rd 2009 )
- Boarding a bus filled with adventures ( May 10th 2009 )
- The price of raising food ( April 25th 2009 )
- For love of horses ( April 11th 2009 )
- Sam’s sugar bush ( March 28th 2009 )
- This little piggy ( March 15th 2009 )
- Storytelling is just human nature ( March 1st 2009 )
- How the Larose Forest grew ( February 14th 2009 )
- Dog tales ( January 31st 2009 )
- Pausing to smell the roses ( January 18th 2009 )
- Then and now ( January 3rd 2009 )
- Fostering a large family celebration ( December 21st 2008 )
- Christmas gems await those shopping in the country ( December 7th 2008 )
- Suburbia’s ‘wannabe hick’ ( November 22nd 2008 )
- Seasonal cycles in the countryside ( November 8th 2008 )
- Salvaging useful car parts ( October 24th 2008 )
- A working man ( October 12th 2008 )
- Firewood and poetry ( September 27th 2008 )
- Musings on a non-season ( September 12th 2008 )
- Agri-tour offers scrumptious adventure ( August 30th 2008 )
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