Students from Sydenham Community and Bayview Public Schools in Owen Sound are already becoming acquainted in anticipation of the merging of the two school communities in September 2017. As part of the 163rd Annual Sydenham Fall Fair on Thursday, September 22nd, organizers, staff and students from Sydenham invited their future school peers from Bayview to come to Grey Roots Museum & Archives for a taste of what this historic tradition is all about.
Arguably the oldest and last Canadian school-based fall event of its kind still in operation,...
Bruce Trail Day is an annual event celebrating Canada's oldest and longest footpath, hosted by the Bruce Trail Conservancy and each of the nine Bruce Trail Clubs. Each BTC Club hosts free guided...
By Cathy Hird
In the misty grey light on Sunday morning, I drove around a corner to find a scarlet maple tree shining luminous above a pool of still water. I am sure that it was green when I drove that way the week before, but that morning every leaf shone deep red.
Hints of fall colour have peeked at us for a week or two. On one branch reaching out toward the road, the leaves had turned orange-red as if flames licked that one corner of the tree. A splash of yellow appeared in a narrow road lined with green. A few bright leaves dotted the lawn. The transformation from growth to rest, summer to winter, had begun.
It always seems as if
-by Lori Twining
Some people call me a Librophile and others stick with labeling me as a Bibliophile, but no matter how deep my love goes for books, I seriously can't get enough of them. I have this obsessive compulsion to read ALL the books in this world before I die... I'm in panic mode, trying to make this happen. I buy them, borrow them, beg for them, and at the moment, I hesitantly draw the line at stealing them (although,...
Hear the irish music next Sunday.
The Pratie Oaten Irish Festival takes place Sunday, September 25 at the Grey Roots Museum and Archives from noon until 5 p.m.
Grey Roots Museum is dedicating this year's Pratie Oaten Irish Festival to the memory of...
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