By Heart: Notes from a small place in the country

Wonderful, Unadvertised Event

23/12/2017

© R. L. Whitney. Originally Published in the King's County Record, December 23, 1985.

And so at last the huckstering and silliness is almost over, for this year.

The great hootchie-kootchie dance of mass merchandising has bopped and bumped and ground its way to its terminal twitches. The last cash register will soon ring up its last sale. Silent too will be the super sweet recordings that tell us to listen because the herald angels have something important to say - only to be interrupted with the more relevant news of a five-minute sale in ladies lingerie.

"Silent night" ~ winter sunset over the barn. © R. L. Whitney

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We moved to our farm in Sussex, New Brunswick from Toronto in 1977, only moving away in 2014.

For over 30 years of our life there, I wrote a weekly column for the Kings County Record in Sussex chronicling the little events that are the heart of ‘daily life’ in a small place in the country. These blog posts are drawn from those columns.

The weekly column became, over the years, a series of bench-marks or surveyor’s stakes to record the contours of the place we lived, its dreaming hills and fertile valleys, icy chasms and swift-flowing streams.

While I no longer live on the farm, we continue to share the columns from time to time on this blog. And very soon you will be able to read my book! To be published in December 2019.

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Images on the blog are drawn from my own photography, and my wife Alice's artwork. We occasionally resort to other people's images when nothing we have on hand suits the content of the post.

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