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Meet the Makers – fibre festival in Orillia

Meet the Makers – fibre festival in Orillia

by Marie Sternberg             What is the attraction of wool and other animal fibres? Why have we seen a recent emergence of various rural knitting festivals in south central Ontario in the past couple of years,...

Remembering Martha – the Last Passenger Pigeon

Remembering Martha – the Last Passenger Pigeon

Martha died at the ripe old age of 29, the last in a very long string of Passenger Pigeons. She was the namesake of Martha Washington – President George Washington’s wife – who herself had suffered an earlier extinction incident in the spring of 1802.

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