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Your Letters: What’s The Story, Morning Glory?
I’m responding to “The $12,000 Hole to Nowhere” (May ’24), which seems to dismiss divining or witching as a means of locating a water well. My neighbour, an older man, insisted he knew how to find groundwater by divining. Using a forked stick, he pin
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A Healthy Woodlot, No Matter The Size, Can Fight Climate Change And Might Even Help Your Bank Account
ONE YEAR, WITH the kind of gusto for tidying up that’s endemic across cottage country in early July, my husband, Steve, and I set out to clean up an abandoned woodpile. It had been festering in an overgrown tangle of trees by the shore. I lifted up o
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There Are A Million Reasons To Love The Lake. Here, Five Of Our Writers Tell Us Theirs
FORTY-TWO YEARS ago, I landed on the island as a visitor and passed the pre-spousal cottage test. That meant simply to survive a weekend off-grid and show boundless enthusiasm. Mary and Jack, matriarch and patriarch, did their own thing. And, over th

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