BALLAD OF THE BACK ROAD FARMER The price of eggs is down again, I’m glad that I am not a hen; Just think of all the work it takes to lay an egg And then the aches from sitting on a cold, cold nest, with just some feathers for a vest. Our grain, it doesn’t […]
BALLAD OF THE BACK ROAD FARMER March is a month I love to see, the sap starts rising in the tree; the sun shines warm and melts some snow, we hope that soon it all will go. And though the wind is cold and raw, to-day I heard an old crow caw. The snow, which […]
BALLAD OF THE BACK ROAD FARMER Ah me, my bones do throb and ache – I think sometimes that they will break. My joints they seem to be filled with glue, caused by that bad old devil, flu. It sneaked up on me, some days ago, It hit me hard and laid me low, With […]
BALLAD OF THE BACKROAD FARMER Some fellers love their cigarettes, but me, I’ve never liked one yet. They burn so hot and smoke so fast, three minutes is all … one will last. And others love a good cigar, to them it is the best by far, but its aroma some call stink, a “foul […]
MEMORIES OF CJNorthHastings – from 1975 A recent news item in The Bancroft Times rekindled the memory button within my grey matter for I was among the first on-air volunteers for CJNH AM radio in North Hastings. The station was an outreach of CJBQ in Belleville. As I recall George Robinson, recently retired at that […]
THE TIMES TRAVELLER by BARNEY MOORHOUSE For Reproduction Rights call Access 1.800.893.5777 FLASHBACK – 937. December 1953 Readers may recall this item. CAR CLIMBED BRIDGE GIRDER THEN FELL 18 FEET TO FLOOR “I guess we are lucky to be alive,” was the comment by Thomas Elliott, 30, of Highland Grove, owner and driver of a […]
An Urban coyote story While out for his constitutional Mississauga resident Alex Biron saw what he took to be a coyote on the Port Credit Village Marina docks and it appeared to be ‘trapped’. Seeking some advice he called the Toronto Wildlife Centre. “They were concerned about how long it had been there, if it […]
From January 2007 When he made plans for the impending moose hunt I doubt that Ricky Burke gave any thought to being trampled. Burke, age 27, is an independent logger. In short he’s a strong, well conditioned young man who is at home in the bush. The drive from Bancroft to Terrace Bay takes about […]
Camp Madawaska is a former Salvation Army camp in Nipissing District Ontario, Canada, near the entrance to Algonquin Provincial Park. It was named after the Madawaska River as the Opeongo River, one of its tributaries, flows through the camp. The main lake on the property was Victoria. Two islands are in the lake, known by […]
Lord Combermere (1773-1865) was a distinguished British Cavalry commander in the early 1800s. Combermere Abbey, Cheshire, England, was founded by Benedictine monks in 1133. King Henry Vll kicked the Benedictines out and ultimately the Abbey came into Lord Combermere’s ancestral family from whence he took his title. Today it is both a tourist attraction and […]
